248 So. 2d 225 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “"III. On, or about, Jan. 11, 1969, the Assist. State Attorney, the Honorable Clyde B. Wells, came to the Walton County Jail to see the defendant and to coerce him into pleading guilty to the charge of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony; Mr. Wells told the defendant that if he did not plead guilty to this charge that he, Mr. Wells, would see to it that the defendant would get 20 yrs. on each charge; but also told the defendant that if he would enter a plea of guilty to this charge, that he, Mr. Wells, would fix it with the judge that he would only get probation and that he, Mr. Wells, would dismiss the other charges against him; he also told the defendant not to say anything about this talk, to his father or his attorney, and told the defendant that he would call him along with his father and attorney to talk to him later on, in order to make it look good in the eyes of his father and attorney. "IV. The defendant told Mr. Wells that he would do this, only if Mr. Wells guaranteed the probation and that he would drop all pending charges, Mr. Wells said he does guarantee this. "VI. The petitioner now states that the Assist. State Attorney, the Honorable Clyde B. Wells, deprived him of due process of law, when he forced the defendant into entering a plea of guilty; a violation of the 14th Amendment as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 259 So. 2d 753 - Williams v. State