120 Md. App. 113 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “In yet another significant regard, the plea bargain contrasts with other miscellaneous bargains. The interest of the courts in the plea bargaining process is based not so much on the equitable notion that every suspect citizen be treated fairly by the elected prosecutor but rather on the credibility of the plea bargaining process and the indispensable role that that process plays in the management of an otherwise overwhelming caseload. First, as we just noted, plea bargains serve an indispensable role in our criminal justice system by disposing of a large percentage of our criminal cases. [State v.] Parker, 334 Md. [576,] 597-98, 640 A.2d 1104 [1994]; Allgood v. State, 309 Md. 58, 66 , 522 A.2d 917 (1987); [State v.] Brockman, 277 Md. [687,] 692-93, 357 A.2d 376 [(1976)]. The agreement at issue, while serving the convenience of the prosecutor in this particular case, is not a type of agreement that serves a similar systemic purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 152 Md. App. 442 - Pitt v. State

2. ““Now, whether or not there was an agreement between Defense and State, I don’t know. There’s going to have to be a full, perhaps, evidentiary hearing on that issue. But the fact of the matter was, I think it’s kind of [naive], frankly for Counsel to think that if the State comes back with one piece of information that says it exculpates your client that they’re not going to go forward. They could have said that on the record, Your Honor, we’re waiting for some D.N.A. information. If in fact it comes back negative on Mr. Jackson, we don’t have a case. They could have said that. They didn’t. They apparently have other information.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jackson v. State

3. “Under Hicks and its progeny, when a trial date is postponed beyond the 180 day period, without a finding of the requisite cause by the administrative judge or his or her designee, dismissal is mandatory unless the defendant seeks or expressly consents to a trial date in violation of the rule. State v. Parker, 847 Md. 533 , 537-38, 702 A.2d 217 (1995); Goins, 293 Md. at 107-08 , 442 A.2d 550 ; Franklin [v. State], 114 Md.App. [530] at 534, 691 A.2d 257 [1997],”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 122 Md. App. 413 - Dyson v. State