Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Armstrong v. State · 231 Ga. App. 329 - Reviere v. State · 163 Ga. App. 320 - Mock v. State · 233 Ga. App. 655 - Head v. State · 259 Ga. App. 720 - Lopez v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Our laws governing criminal procedure are designed to ensure that defendants receive a fair trial. Defendants are free to waive the protections provided by such laws, assuming all the risks attendant thereto. A defendant is not free, however, to play one right against another with the hope of creating error. Neither may a defendant who has knowingly waived counsel then complain of a lack of counsel when he determines that the judge's warnings were valid. Under such circumstances, the defendant's problems are of his own making, and he is bound by his poor choices.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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