737 So. 2d 1042 - Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “When it appears to the satisfaction of any circuit court or county court in the State of Mississippi, having original jurisdiction over criminal actions, or to the judge thereof, that the ends of justice and the best interest of the public, as well as the defendant, will be served thereby, such court, in termtime or in vacation, shall have the power, after conviction or a plea of guilty, except in a case where a death sentence or life imprisonment is the maximum penalty which may be imposed or where the defendant has been convicted of a felony on a previous occasion in any court or courts of the United States and of any state or territories thereof, to suspend the imposition or execution of sentence, and place the defendant on probation as herein provided, except that the court shall not suspend the execution of a sentence of imprisonment after the defendant shall have begun to serve such sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 3 So. 3d 767 - Carroll v. State

2. “on the improper inducement that he was eligible for a suspended sentence ..., he is therefore permitted to withdraw his guilty plea and he must be allowed to enter a new plea and offered the opportunity of a new trial.”

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

3. “six years to serve would run concurrent to the Alabama sentence and concurrent to the prior five-year sentence of the Itawamba County Circuit Court....”

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