Barker v. Cochran

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the defendant’s allocution claim was waived because it was not raised before the trial court
• observing that a merger/double jeopardy claim is “one non-statutory example of an illegal sentence”
• observing that a merger/double jeopardy claim is \one non-statutory example of an illegal sentence\
• holding “a denial of the right of allocution does not create a non-waivable challenge to the legality of the sentence[]”
• indicating a challenge to the authority of the court to give a particular sentence is a legality of sentencing claim
• a claim that the trial court considered an improper factor presents a challenge to the discretionary aspects of one’s sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).