Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2001
4 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 Fairfield v. State · Thompson v. State · Ewing v. State · Bullard v. State · DeVary v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“"THE COURT: I am going to let you withdraw your plea. We will pick a date and we will have a jury trial, Mr. Wilson. "THE DEFENDANT: I hoped that would not happen, but "THE COURT: Well, let's get something clear. A person charged with a crime has a right to plead any way he wants to. Part of my job is to be sure that whatever your plea is, but most particularly if it is a plea of guilty or something that adds up to the same thing as no contest pleas generally do, that such a plea is freely and voluntarily entered and that a person who pleads guilty or no contest knows what they are doing and knows what the consequences are. "Now, I am perfectly satisfied from all this not that you are not guiltyI am not saying that for one moment, Mr. Wilson. You may very well be guilty. I am perfectly satisfied that your plea of no contest was entered with all sorts of reservations, and as we used to say when we were children, with crossed fingers and king's X's and all of those things. I am not going to accept that kind of plea. "Now, you may say, as I expect you are about to, `Well, gee, I am not at all sure, Judge, I want a jury trial, either.' Well, if you are prepared to enter an unqualified plea of either guilty or no contest, then that is fine. You have a right to do that. But when you qualify it and you tell Judge Ellis one thing and tell the Probation Department something that is completely inconsistent with that, I have the discretion to accept that, if I want to, or not to accep”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State
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