State v. White’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Whenever a question is legitimately raised concerning the prosecuting attorney’s personal authorization of a State’s appeal, the State bears the burden of proving that the appeal in question was personally, expressly and specifically authorized by the prosecuting attorney. Thus, the appellate record must clearly reflect the prosecuting attorney’s personal authorization of the specific notice of appeal filed in a given case. Without a signature or other written expressed authorization, as reflected in the appellate record, there would be no guarantee that the only person permitted by statute to make an appeal on behalf of the State actually participated in the process. Evidence of a general delegation of authority to an assistant does ’ not qualify under the statute.”

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