84 N.C. App. 623 - State v. Mercer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. United States · Blackledge v. Allison · Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · Provenzano v. United States · Long Manufacturing Company, Inc., Long Tobacco Harvesting Company, Inc., and W. R. Long v. Jim Brown Holliday and Harrington Manufacturing Company, Inc., Harrington Manufacturing Company, Inc., J. J. Harrington, and Jim Brown Holliday v. Long Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“A conviction on an involuntary guilty plea involves a violation of rights under the United States Constitution and thus, a defendant is entitled to collaterally attack a judgment entered on his guilty plea, on the grounds that the plea was not voluntarily and knowingly given. A guilty plea is not voluntary and intelligent unless it is “entered by one fully aware of the direct consequences, including the actual value of any commitments made to him by the court, prosecutor, or his own counsel. . .,” and is not “the product of such factors as misunderstanding, duress, or misrepresentation by others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.