Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “In assessing “fault” the principal’s status in the other jurisdiction becomes important-is the principal simply awaiting trial there, or has the principal been convicted and is now serving his sentence? If a principal has been convicted of the crime in the other jurisdiction, the reasoning of Williams[v. State, 130 Tex.Crim. 124 , 92 S.W.2d 1036 (1936)], supra, makes sensesince the principal’s illegal actions led to his incarceration and it is the incarceration that prevents his appearance, it cannot be said that his failure to appear “arose through no fault on his part.” He certainly bears some modicum of fault in his failure to appear by virtue of the fact that his illegal actions led directly to his incarceration, thereby preventing his appearance.”

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

2. “preventing their appearance in court, on this record the trial court could have reasonably concluded, in each case, that appellant failed to prove that the principals' failure to appear arose through no fault of their own, since they were apparently in this country illegally. Appellant also makes other arguments under ground for review number two in each case, but he failed to make those arguments in the trial court, so we will not consider them. We overrule ground for review number two in each case. Finally, in ground for review number three in each case, appellant argues that,”

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