Games v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant waived right to challenge his conviction on double jeopardy grounds
• providing that defendants “who plead guilty to achieve favorable outcomes in the process of bargaining give up a plethora of substantive claims and procedural rights”
• holding a defendant who enters a plea agreement to achieve an advantageous position must keep the bargain and cannot then challenge the sentence on double jeopardy grounds
• noting that “Games bargained for a sentence between sixty and 118 years in order to avoid the death penalty” and, accordingly, had “waived his right to challenge his sentence on double jeopardy grounds”
• explaining that a defendant who enters plea agreement to achieve advantageous position must Court of Appeals of Indiana | Memorandum Decision 79A02-1701-CR-21 | December 6, 2017 Page 5 of 6 keep the bargain
• providing that a defendant “who enters a plea agreement to achieve an advantageous position must keep the bargain” and “[o]nce the defendant bargains for a reduced charge, he cannot then challenge the sentence on double jeopardy grounds”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Creech v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2008-05-21· cited 108×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-06-21· cited 68×
• Thomas M. Kunberger v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-12-02· cited 57×
• Davis v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-07-19· cited 56×
• Mapp v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-06-28· cited 56×
• Douglas v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-12-28· cited 55×
• In Re the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of E.T.
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-05-20· cited 45×
• Schlichter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-12-18· cited 34×
• George v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-12-07· cited 9×
• Graham v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-03-31· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2015-05-12· cited 7×
• House v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-02-24· cited 6×
• Travis Koontz v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-10-09· cited 6×
• Mays v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-06-30· cited 5×
• Kincaid v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-11-12· cited 4×
• Woods v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-11-27· cited 3×
• Bunch v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-01-16· cited 3×
• Stites v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-06-29· cited 2×
• Richard Hawkins v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-07-03· cited 2×
• Ridner v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-06-30· cited 1×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Richardson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-10-01· cited 824×
• Games v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-23· cited 117×
• Martinez-Villareal v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-02· cited 84×
• Sims v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-01-23· cited 70×
• Cherry v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-01-07· cited 60×
• Games v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-03-14· cited 54×
• Lasley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-07-24· cited 37×
• Lutes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-03-17· cited 15×
• Griffin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 14×
• Spivey v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1990-04-30· cited 12×