Pena v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “... where an issue concerns technical, procedural requirements such as the issue before us ... practitioners rightfully look to the opinions of the appellate court in their jurisdiction for guidance on accepted practice. We hold that when an appellate court has a case presenting this kind of issue transferred to it, the court accepting the transfer should apply the law of the transferring jurisdiction so as to uphold the rightful expectations of practitioners in the transferring jurisdiction.”

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