Copeland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““In Goetzman, the circuit court also upheld Goetzman’s second-degree-robbery conviction, finding that Goetzman had expressly consented to the first-degree-robbery indictment’s being amended to charge second-degree' robbery and that this express consent distinguished the case from Ex parte Cole. However, on return to remand, this Court affirmed the circuit court’s order. We now believe that that affirmance was in error because, as noted above, amending a first-degree-robbery charge that does not include the fact that the defendant was aided in the robbery by another person to charge second-degree robbery is improper. We have examined the record in Goetzman as well as the record in Ex parte Cole; we can find no material difference between the two. In Goetzman, as the circuit court noted in its order on remand, the case action summary indicated that the parties had expressly agreed to amend the first-degree-robbery indictment (which did not include the fact that Goetzman was aided in the robbery by another person) to charge second-degree robbery. However, in Ex parte Cole, the case action summary also indicated that the parties had expressly agreed to amend the first-degree-robbery indictment (which did not include the fact that the defendant was aided in the robbery by another person) to charge second-degree robbery. Therefore, our unpublished memorandum affirming the circuit court’s order in Goetzman was erroneous.””

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