402 Pa. Super. 405 - Commonwealth v. Ginn’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2017
22 state decisions
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 Commonwealth v. Zuber
Most-quoted passages
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“We find analogous the cases in this Commonwealth where a prosecutor and a defendant enter a plea agreement. In speaking on such a situation our Supreme Court has stated that there is an affirmative duty on the part of the prosecutor to honor any and all the promises made to a defendant in exchange for the defendant's plea. Commonwealth v. Zuber, 466 Pa. 453 , 353 A.2d 441 (1976). Our courts have demanded strict compliance with that duty in order to avoid any possible perversion of the plea bargaining system, evidencing the concern that a defendant might be coerced into a bargain or fraudulently induced to give up the very valued constitutional guarantees attendant the right to trial by jury. Id. at 458-459 , 353 A.2d at 444 . Similar concerns over the public faith placed on such a pledge have been expressed by courts which have considered the enforceability of agreements to drop a prosecution based upon the results of a polygraph test. See Annot., 36 A.L.R.3d 1280 (1971) (for a collection of cases).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“moral obligation here to live up to the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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