State v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2000
3 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Boykin v. Alabama · 400 So. 2d 1370 - State v. Edwards · 412 So. 2d 1082 - State v. Sam · 354 So. 2d 1316 - State v. Dominick
Most-quoted passages
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“As to [the defendant] Wells, the predicate conviction was based upon a plea of guilty to aggravated robbery and unauthorized use of a vehicle in 1982 in the State of Texas. Where the predicate conviction is from another state it must be for a crime which, if committed in Louisiana, would be a felony. R.S. 15:529.1(A). Defendant Wells does not dispute that this requirement has been met. Where the predicate conviction occurred in another state and was based upon a plea of guilty, the state is required to prove only that the defendant was represented by counsel, and the burden shifts to the defendant to prove that he was deprived of his rights under Boykin, either by producing the transcript or by other evidence if he can show that the transcript cannot be produced. State v. Smith, 415 So.2d 930 (La.1982). The record shows and.defendant does not dispute that he was represented by counsel in the Texas proceedings. Since Wells neither produced the transcript of the Texas guilty plea nor demonstrated that he could not obtain a copy of it he failed to meet his burden of proving that he was deprived of his constitutional rights when he entered his plea. [Emphasis added].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The circumstances that both defendants were in the car when they blocked the victims' path and both jumped out of the car with Wells going for Pichietti's purse while Francois threatened Sexton with a knife, are sufficient under the Jackson standard of review to convict Wells as a principal under R.S. 14:24. This is so even though Wells did not personally hold the weapon. State v. Dominick, 354 So.2d 1316 (La.1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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