State v. Heisser

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that unilateral mistake would not provide relief where party was not mistaken about an underlying fact but rather “mistaken as to the legal effect” of a plea agreement
• stating that “contract law generally (but not invariably) controls” the interpretation of plea agreements and suggesting that that holds true for the formation of plea agreements
• stating that the issue in that case was “whether defendant and the state entered into a plea agreement, and if so, the terms of that agreement”
• courts “first examine the text of the disputed provision . . . [if] clear, the analysis ends”
• “[w]hen considering a written contractual provision, the court’s first inquiry is what the words of the contract say, not what the parties say about it”
• The interpretation of the parties’ agreement is controlled by the unambiguous meaning of a provision in a written plea agreement.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).