Pride v. Kemp

How courts have described this case

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

• improper for court to repeatedly state it would impose longer sentence if defendant went to trial
• in case involving voluntariness of a guilty plea, habeas court’s denial of defendant’s petition was reversed where trial court threatened him with a longer sentence if he went to trial
• in case involving voluntariness of a guilty plea, habeas court’s denial of defendant’s petition was reversed where trial court threatened him with a longer sentence if he went to trial
• guilty plea was involuntary where trial court repeatedly indicated that it would impose a longer sentence if defendant went to trial and would prefer for defendant to go to trial so that the court could impose a longer sentence
• defendant “heard the trial court repeatedly state that it would impose a longer sentence if [he] went to trial” and that the trial court “would prefer that [he] go to trial” so that the court could “ ‘give [him] what I would really like to give him’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).