896 So. 2d 1101 - State v. Corzo’s Empirical Analysis

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61 state decisions

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1. “In State v. Cook, 372 So.2d 1202 (La.1979), the Louisiana Supreme Court explained that a defendant is not prohibited from entering a guilty plea to a non-responsive crime when such a plea is acceptable to the district attorney, but stated that the district attorney must amend the indictment to charge the non-responsive crime. In Cook , the defendant was charged in a single Bill of Information with aggravated burglary and simple burglary. Pursuant to a plea bargain, the defendant pled guilty to aggravated burglary and simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling. In an error patent review, the Supreme Court found burglary of an inhabited dwelling was not responsive to or a lesser included offense of simple burglary. The Supreme Court noted that the State did not amend or file a new Bill of Information to charge the non-responsive crime and, as such, held the trial court did not have jurisdiction to accept the defendant's guilty plea. The Supreme Court set aside the defendant's entire plea, after finding that the "invalid guilty plea was part of a plea bargain in which the defendant also pled guilty to aggravated burglary." State v. Cook, 372 So.2d at 1205 . State v. Corzo, 896 So.2d at 1103-1104 .”

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