Pickens v. Howes

How courts have described this case

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

• “After an appeal of a trial court’s final judgment has been perfected by the filing of a notice of appeal, the trial court no longer has jurisdiction to grant a Rule 60(b) motion.”
• “After an appeal of a trial court's final judgment has been perfected by the filing of a notice of appeal, the trial court no longer has jurisdiction to grant a Rule 60(b) motion.” (citation omitted)
• “Even though the district court is without jurisdiction, it can be involved.”
• “[W]e hold that it is unnecessary to permit a person to withdraw an illegal plea or require the state to retry a case when the defendant’s sentence has been modified to make the sentence legal and to give the defendant every benefit of his bargain.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).