940 So. 2d 147 - State v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “There is no requirement that a guilty plea be accompanied by the recitation of a factual basis for the crime. State v. Wynne, 40,921 (La.App.2d Cir.4/12/06), 926 So.2d 789 citing State v. Griffin, 633 So.2d 358 (La.App. 1st Cir.1993), writ denied, 94-0240 (La.10/14/94), 643 So.2d 157 . “[T]he due process clause imposes no constitutional duty on state trial judges to ascertain a factual basis prior to accepting a guilty plea.... Louisiana law, unlike [federal law] has no statutory provision requiring accompaniment of a guilty plea by the recitation of a factual basis.” State v. Wynne, 926 So.2d at 796 , Due process requires a finding of a significant factual basis for a defendant’s guilty plea only when a defendant proclaims his innocence or when the trial court is otherwise put on notice that there is a need for an inquiry into the factual basis. State v. Brooks, 38,963 (La.App.2d Cir.9/22/04), 882 So.2d 724, 730 , writ denied, 2004-2634 (La.2/18/05), 896 So.2d 30 .”

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