Fortson v. Hopper

How courts have described this case

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

• “When the judge accepts the plea of nolo contendere, he is empowered to impose whatever sentence is provided by law for the crime, just as if the defendant had been convicted by a jury or entered a plea of guilty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).