34 Cal. 3d 277 - In Re Ibarra’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 1132 - People v. Howard (1992), 53 Cal. 3d 522 - People v. Wharton (1991)
2 federal appellate · 152 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Boykin v. Alabama · Brady v. United States · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope · 1 Cal. 3d 122 - In Re Tahl
Most-quoted passages
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“may be a valuable tool to the prosecutor, who has a need for all defendants, or none, to plead guilty. The prosecutor may be properly interested in avoiding the time, delay and expense of trial of all the defendants. He is also placed in a difficult position should one defendant plead and another go to trial, because the defendant who pleads may become an adverse witness on behalf of his codefendant, free of jeopardy. Thus, the prosecutor's motivation for proposing a”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Solano · State v. Horning“Extraneous factors not related to the case or the prosecutor’s business may be brought into play. For example a defendant may fear that his wife will be prosecuted and convicted if he does not plead guilty; or, a defendant may fear, as alleged in this case, that his codefendant will attack him if he does not plead guilty. Because such considerations do not bear any direct relation to whether the defendant himself is guilty, special scrutiny must be employed to insure a voluntary plea. “[P]lea bargaining of adverse or lenient treatment for some person other than the accused ... might pose a greater danger of inducing a false guilty plea____” Bordenkircher v. Hayes, 434 U.S. 357, 364, n. 8 , 98 S.Ct. 663, 668, n. 8 , 54 L.Ed.2d 604, 611, n. 8 (1978).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Only if in questioning the defendant and his attorney the trial court has reason to believe the defendant does not fully comprehend his rights, must the trial court conduct further canvassing of the defendant to ensure a knowing and intelligent waiver of rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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