State v. Mendenhall’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “A guilty plea relieves the state of the burden of proving guilt and waives the defendant’s right to question the state’s case as well as appellate review of the case against the defendant. State v. Hardy, 39,233 (La.App.2d Cir.01/26/05), 892 So.2d 710 . Specifically, a plea of guilty waives all nonjurisdictional defects in the proceedings prior to the plea. State v. Crosby, 338 So.2d 584 (La.1976); State v. Torres, 281 So.2d 451 (La.1973); State v. Taylor, 30,531 (La.App.2d Cir.05/13/98), 714 So.2d 143 . Here, defendant failed to inquire as to the identity of the confidential informant before entering a guilty plea and failed to reserve his right to raise this issue on appeal under Crosby, supra. Accordingly, we conclude that Defendant waived any claim to this information ...”

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