State v. Mitchell Bowen’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “THE COURT: And the nature of the allegations in Count VI are that between 2010 and August of 2013, Stuart Lizotte, Jr., of Rutland, at Rutland, was a person who was at least eighteen years of age and engaged in a nonconsensual sexual act with a child under the age of thirteen, specifically, on several occasions he made contact with his mouth and the penis of J.W., a child under thirteen years of age, in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 3253(a)(8). Do you understand that's the nature of the allegations against you? THE DEFENDANT: I do, Your Honor. THE COURT: Okay. I'm going to ask the State to state the factual basis, and I'm going to ask you listen carefully to the factual basis, Mr. Lizotte, because I'm going to ask if you agree with those facts after the State is done.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Stuart Lizotte, Jr.

2. “inquiry as shall satisfy it that there is a factual basis for the plea.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Stuart Lizotte, Jr.