State v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “[W]hen a district court decides whether probable cause exists to believe that a defendant committed the crime charged, the court has exercised discretion for the purposes of Rule 5-106(A). [The defendant's participation in the preliminary hearing necessarily involved the exercise of discretion on the part of [the district court judge] because [the defendant could have received a favorable ruling dismissing the charges against [the defendant] if [the judge] viewed the facts in a particular way, which would have been within his discretion.”

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