Stapleford v. Perrin

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a significant liberty interest exists when commitment may be the sanction, requiring due process protections including representation by counsel
• requiring that a defendant know “in plain and certain terms” the extent to which the-court retains discretion to impose punishment at a later date
• “At the conclusion of the sentencing proceeding, a defendant and the society which brought him to court must know in plain and certain terms what punishment has been exacted by the court . . . .”
• defining due process rights in cases of delayed incarceration
• adopting analysis of Gagnon v. Scarpelli and Morrissey v. Brewer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).