Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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1. “We did not hold in Northam that a request to discharge counsel must be made orally or in open court; nor did we hold that a request sufficient to trigger Rule 4-215(e) may be waived effectively by failure to repeat it or otherwise bring it to the court's attention once filed in writing. We concluded that Northam's written request was insufficient to trigger Rule 4-215(e) because it was vague and obscured by the larger body of the written motion captioned as (and concerned with) a Motion for Change of Venue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Weddington

2. “Nowhere in the Rule does it state that such a request must be oral, as opposed to written, or made in open court. We decline to adopt the State's categorical view that an out-of-open-court, written request filed with the court cannot alone compel an inquiry and disposition by the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Weddington

3. “(1) that a law enforcement officer attempted to arrest the defendant; (2) that the defendant knew that a law enforcement officer was attempting to arrest [him] [her]; and (3) that the defendant refused to submit to the arrest and resisted the arrest by force.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Aparicio-Soria