Pitts v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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1. “At the hearing on June 20, 1986, appellant moved orally to be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea. When the court granted the motion, appellant then pleaded not guilty and announced ready for trial. Appellant did not request that any filed instrument be stricken, and there was no reason for the court to impliedly withdraw any more of the properly executed pleading than was necessary to be consistent with appellant’s changed plea. Appellant’s right under art. 1.13 “upon entering a plea, to waive the right of trial by jury,” was properly exercised at the time of his initial plea. To hold that appellant’s later changed plea per se negated earlier filed instruments would unnecessarily require the repeated preparation and execution of portions of agreed or undisputed instruments. Appellant never expressed a desire to withdraw his jury waiver until appeal. The trial court correctly considered only those portions of appellant’s waiver and stipulation instrument to be withdrawn that were inconsistent with appellant’s new plea of not guilty.”

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