624 So. 2d 217 - Brewster v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The record in this case contains both a signed form and a minute entry reciting compliance with Boykin, but the minute entry is contradicted by the court reporter’s transcript. The judgment entry states that the appellant had been “advised of HIS legal rights by the Court,” CR. 16,18, 20, 22, but the court reporter’s transcript of the colloquy between the trial court and the appellant shows that the trial court neither advised the appellant of his rights nor inquired whether he had read, or had had read to him, the rights form before signing it or before 'pleading guilty. The trial court merely ascertained that the appellant had ‘signed’ the form.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Brown v. State

2. ““[a] guilty ‘plea is only properly accepted ... upon satisfaction of the requisites, of Boykin [v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969)] including the trial judge’s determination- that the guilty plea was knowingly and voluntarily entered by the accused. The record must reflect sufficient facts from which .such determination could properly be made.’ Dingler v. State, 408 So.2d 530, 532 (Ala.1981).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Herring v. State

3. “"In Twyman v. State , 293 Ala. 75 , 300 So.2d 124 (1974), the Alabama Supreme Court . . . held that a transcript of a Boykin colloquy was not required if the record contained an 'Ireland' form signed by the defendant and there was other evidence . . . that the defendant had been informed of his rights before signing the form." (Emphasis in original.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 662 So. 2d 1214 - Starks v. State