Sample v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the State’s consent to an order of nolle prosequi in the context of a plea agreement is not a concession that the crime was not committed
• involving a negotiated plea in which Sample agreed to testify against two co-defendants and wherein Sample was personally questioned about the facts of the case by the trial court and provided testimony about such facts
• when the State uses its discretion to nolle prosequi charges pursuant to a negotiated plea, doing so does not mean the crimes were not committed
• plea result of negotiated agreement, while election not to prosecute cocaine trafficking charge based on acceptance of negotiated plea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Swan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-03· cited 11×
• State v. Hammons
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-01· cited 8×
• Shabazz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-29· cited 7×
• Farist v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 5×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-03· cited 5×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-07· cited 3×
• State v. Samuel Carlton Adams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-01· cited 17×
• Edmond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-09-26· cited 9×
• Asberry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-01-30· cited 8×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1961-10-04· cited 4×