State v. Hodge’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 194 W. Va. 595 - State v. Lilly (1995), State v. Nunez (1999)
132 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Burks v. United States · Tollett v. Henderson · Robinson v. State of California · 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]ith the prosecution's consent and the court's approval, a defendant may enter a conditional plea of guilty or nolo contendere, reserving in writing the right, on appeal from the judgment, to review of the adverse determination of any specified pretrial motion. A defendant who prevails on appeal shall be allowed to withdraw the plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In Alford , the United States Supreme Court held that courts do not violate due process when they accept guilty pleas from defendants who continue to protest their innocence ... so long as the court is satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea independent of the defendant's statements.... An Alford plea, however, does not in itself reserve any issue for appeal. "A conditional guilty plea, on the other hand, conditions the plea on reservation of one or more specific issues for appellate review. An Alford plea could be conditioned on review of a specific issue, as it was in the case involved here ...; but it is a conditional guilty plea only if it comports with the requirements for such a plea. Otherwise, appellate review of Alford pleas is conducted under the same standards as are applicable to review of unconditional guilty pleas.” (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a defendant who has lost one or more pretrial motions will often go through an entire trial simply to preserve the pretrial issues for later appellate review. This results in a waste of prosecutorial and judicial resources, and causes delay in the trial of other cases .... These unfortunate consequences may be avoided by the conditional plea device ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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