916 So. 2d 542 - Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · Brown v. State · Stevenson v. State · 909 So. 2d 160 - Covington v. State
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“if[,] as a result of a plea bargain[,] a prior felon voluntarily accepts an offered suspended sentence and some form of probation[,] this becomes by agreement an enforceable sentence. Furthermore, a defendant should not be able to attack a lighter, illegal sentence [that] benefits him simply because it serves his interest to do so, when the legal sentence would have been more severe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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