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Supreme Court· 5/21/1962

Lynch v. Overholser

Citations

  • 369 U.S. 705
  • 82 S. Ct. 1063
  • 8 L. Ed. 2d 211
  • 1962 U.S. LEXIS 1228
  • 20 Ohio Op. 2d 383

How courts have described this case

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

  • suggesting that a judge could accept a guilty plea even if the evidence suggested there was a valid defense
  • suggesting that a judge could accept a guilty plea even if the evidence suggested there was a valid defense
  • noting that finding that accused has committed criminal act is “strong evidence that his continued liberty could imperil ‘the preservation of public peace’ ”
  • stating that there is no absolute right for a criminal defendant’s plea agreement to be accepted by a court
  • explaining that the Davis rule applied in all fed eral courts
  • explaining that the Davis rule applied in all federal courts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Harlan, Clark, Frankfurter, White

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

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Lynch v. Overholser

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