People v. Clemmon’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"The second question raised is the alleged prejudice of the trial judge. When the case was heard and the defendant found guilty, the judge in a hearing to determine the penalty asked if the defendant had a record. The state disclosed that he had been convicted in Arkansas of grand larceny in 1950, burglary in 1954, and grand larceny in 1955, and had been discharged in January 1961, a month or so before the robbery in question. At that point the court said: `Why didn't he stay down in Arkansas? The county and state here are paying for his keep. We have enough of our own problems here without getting some of these fellows coming up and staying a month and then getting into trouble?' This remark made after the defendant was found guilty, affords no basis for the charge of prejudice."”

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