Sprouse 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 counsel was ineffective in failing to ensure that the State adhered to the original plea agreement and remanding for specific performance of the plea agreement given it would grant “the parties nothing more and nothing less than the benefit for which they originally bargained”
• finding defendant was entitled to post-conviction relief where the State failed to honor the plea agreement it made with defendant and trial counsel failed to ensure that the State adhered to the original plea agreement
• review of an oral plea agreement is limited to terms set forth in the record
• promise of one prosecutor in the office bound all prosecutors in the office
• specific performance of plea agreement is most efficient option because it eliminated need for new trial or plea hearings and granted parties nothing more and nothing less than the benefit for which they had bargained
• “[Sjtate prosecutors are obligated to fulfill the promises they make to defendants when those promises serve as inducements to defendants to plead guilty.” (citing Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257, 92 S.Ct. 495, 30 L.Ed.2d 427 (1971))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-10-19· cited 59×
• Davie v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2009-03-09· cited 20×
• State v. Dingle
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-02-27· cited 19×
• Custodio v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2007-03-26· cited 8×
• State v. Rikard
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-10-02· cited 7×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• United States v. Michael Hendricks Jaysen Ringling, A/K/A John Kasell
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-03-19· cited 87×
• State v. Thrift
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-01-17· cited 72×
• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1982-01-07· cited 68×