State v. Fontenot’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · State v. Dorthey · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones · 603 So. 2d 739 - State v. Lobato · 805 So. 2d 166 - State v. Weaver
Most-quoted passages
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“amend[ed] Defendant's sentence to vacate the portion ordering jail time in default of payment of court costs and affirm[ed] his sentence as amended. Id. In deciding to vacate the defendant's original sentence, the second circuit noted that because "no presentence investigation was done and the trial court's recitation of the facts and circumstances surrounding the accident are replete with speculation and conjecture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Abshire
How this case has been treated — in progress
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