State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Aside from the legal bar inherent in the defendant's judicial admission, other cogent reasons exist for imposing a waiver. The defendant entered into a solemn agreement whereby he obtained substantial benefits (the dismissal of three class 2 felonies), on the basis that the two prior convictions were valid. At the time when the trier of fact could have resolved the issue of the validity of the consideration accepted by the state (a sentence contingent upon the validity of the prior convictions), the defendant not only did not ask for an inquiry to be made, he actively participated in a course of conduct which would lead the trier of fact to believe that such an inquiry was not necessary. This is the stuff of which estoppel is made. On appeal it is simply too late to urge that the premise upon which all the parties, including the court, acted in good faith was fallacious. All equitable considerations require that the defendant having made his bed must now lie in it.”

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

2. “"Convictions for two or more offenses committed on the same occasion shall be counted as only one conviction for purposes of this section."”

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