475 So. 2d 1340 - Lara v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “"By stipulating to what the state's evidence would have developed at trial in any event, thereby obviating the need for an extensive trial, the defendant employed a perfectly legitimate, calculated trial tactic of going directly, without wasting the judge's time, to the merits of his defense. That defense, perhaps the only defense that could have been raised in the case, was that the state's case was insufficient to establish any criminal participation by the defendant in the crimes for which he was charged. Under these circumstances, we can discern no violation of the defendant's rights. The fact that the defense tactic proved unsuccessful in that the defendant was convicted and received a severe sentence, cannot in hindsight change this result."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 528 So. 2d 984 - Lara v. State