72 Mich. App. 7 - People v. Michael Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “... the right involved is one designed to insure fundamental fairness to a defendant or to insure the reliability of the factfinding process when an individual’s liberty is at stake. The protections offered by such rights would be substantially lost if they could be waived by persons ignorant of their existence. Furthermore, we view the right of a probationer to a hearing on charges of probation violation as one designed both to insure fundamental fairness to the probationer and to insure that findings of fact with respect to the existence of a violation, findings upon which the continuation of the probationer’s conditional liberty depends, are reliably determined. We therefore conclude that a probationer charged with violation of his probation must be informed of his right to a hearing on the charges before he can effectively waive that right.”

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