Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Here, it is undisputed that the district attorney consented to and approved appellant’s waiver of jury trial, albeit the written manifestation thereof was not filed before the appellant entered his plea. Furthermore, appellant does not claim either that he was deprived of a jury trial or that neither he nor the district attorney waived trial by jury; indeed, appellant concedes the waiver of a jury trial. He asserts no harm; he contends only that the court erred in accepting his guilty plea before the waiver was reduced to writing and filed. Under these circumstances, we have no hesitancy in determining beyond a reasonable doubt that the error made no contribution to appellant’s conviction or to his punishment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Moncivaiz v. State

2. “(T]he plea of guilty is by the Court received and now entered of record in the Minutes of the Court as the plea herein of said defendant; thereupon the defendant, his counsel, and the District Attorney announced in open Court that they and each of them, agreed in writing to waive a jury in this cause, and to submit this cause to the Court, and the Court having heard the indictment read, the defendant’s plea thereto,....”

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