21 Md. App. 214 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2001
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Scott v. United States · Thomas v. United States · Baker v. United States · Gollaher v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“THE COURT: What lesson have you learned when you were not telling the truth about it at the time of trial? THE DEFENDANT: I wasn’t telling the truth about it? THE COURT: That’s right. The jury didn’t believe you about this wild story about a man running out and asking you to hold something; that’s perfectly ridiculous. The jury didn’t accept it and I didn’t accept it. You weren’t telling the truth. THE DEFENDANT: I was telling the truth. THE COURT: Very well. A necessary ingredient to leniency in any case is the attitude of the individual. THE DEFENDANT: Yes sir. THE COURT: And when you sit up here and lie about it, and you’re not telling the truth. You think you’re going to get away with it. That attitude is not consistent with any consideration for leniency. If you had come in here after this happened, before the other trouble you got into — if you had come in here with a plea of guilty and been honest about [it] and said, “of course I did it,” which you did, you would probably have gotten a modest sentence, concurrent with the one in the District of Co lumbia, and you would have gotten out of it. But with this attitude that you have you can’t receive that kind of treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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