Rowe v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “In the fall of 2003, the United Drug Task Force of Hendricks County used a confidential informant to perform three controlled buys of cocaine from Rowe, resulting in two counts of class B felony dealing in cocaine and one count of class A felony dealing in cocaine. There were police video- and audiotapes of the controlled buys. As of July 15, 2004, no plea agreement had been reached. On July 20, 2004, the State's confidential informant died from a drug overdose. Shortly after his death, the State offered Rowe a plea bargain giving him a ten-year sentence, with two years suspended. Rowe's counsel was not appointed. Despite the fact that she was only recently out of law school and had not previously tried a class A felony case, Rowe hired her to represent him. She showed him a copy of the State's plea offer, and they discussed whether to accept or reject it. She believed that it would be difficult for the State to prove its case without the confidential informant. They discussed the fact that the audiotape was of poor quality and that Rowe's face was not visible on the videotape-only the license plate to his car. Rowe's attorney counseled him on whether to accept the plea offer or go to trial. She advised him to reject the plea. This was not Rowe's first exposure to the criminal justice system. He had been arrested previously on drug charges and had also been convicted through plea agreement of burglary and theft, serving time in the Department of Correction. Rowe rejected the ”

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

2. “[Wle may not reverse the post-conviction court's judgment unless the petitioner demonstrates that the evidence 'as a whole, leads unerringly and unmistakably to a decision opposite that reached by the post-conviction court.'”

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

3. “be successful at trial. Op. at 445. We note, however, that counsel acknowledged at the post-conviction hearing that she”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Rowe v. State