Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions

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1. “We choose not to declare Mr. Williams’s abstract “flagrandy deficient.” Except for the omission of the judgment and commitment order, the abstract is complete and exemplary. We know from his uncontested statement of the case that Mr. Williams was convicted of conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine and that he was sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment for that offense. We are aware that in other cases, such as the recent decision in Jewell v. Miller County Election Comm’n, 327 Ark. 153 , 936 S.W.2d 754 (1997), we have declined to look to other parts of a brief or abstract to find information that should have been included elsewhere. That, however, was a case in which we were given a nine-page abstract to depict a 1500-page record and six volumes of exhibits. Even in the case of Winters v. Elders, supra, where we declared an abstract of the judgment “essential,” we had an additional reason for affirmance based on incompleteness of the record. While an abstract of the judgment from which the appeal comes is “ordinarily” required, its absence does not necessarily constitute a flagrant deficiency requiring affirmance, and it does not in this case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 58 Ark. App. 182 - Cannon v. State

2. “(a) A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of an offense if, with the purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of an offense, he: (1) Solicits, advises, encourages, or coerces the other person to commit it; or (2) Aids, agrees to aid, or attempts to aid the other person in planning or committing it; or (3) Having a legal duty to prevent the commission of the offense, fails to make proper effort to do so. (b) When causing a particular result is an element of an offense, a person is an accomplice in the commission of that offense if, acting with respect to that result with the kind of culpability sufficient for the commission of the offense, he: (1) Solicits, advises, encourages, or coerces the other person to engage in the conduct causing the result; or (2) Aids, agrees to aid, or attempts to aid the other person in planning or engaging in the conduct causing the result; or (3) Having, a legal duty to prevent the conduct causing the result, fails to make proper effort to do so.”

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