State v. Sears

How courts have described this case

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

• enunciating a \primary test to determine whether a plea bargain should be accepted or rejected\
• abuse of discretion for trial court “to summarily refuse to consider the substantive terms of the [plea] agreement solely because of the timing of the presentation”
• “[W]hen a criminal defendant and the prosecution reach a plea agreement, it is an abuse of discretion for the circuit court to summarily refuse to consider the substantive terms of the agreement solely because of the timing of the presentation of the agreement to the court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Brown
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2004-04-10· cited 40×
• State v. Hager
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2001-07-05· cited 35×
• Wiggins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-05-02· cited 20×
• People v. Allen
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2004-08-11· cited 15×
• State of West Virginia v. Lamar Dorsey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-06-04· cited 11×
• State v. Welch
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2012-10-19· cited 5×
• State v. Montiel
  Utah Supreme Court· 2005-08-05· cited 3×
• State of West Virginia ex rel. Larry Paul McClure, Sr. v. Hon. Booker T. Stephens
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-11-23

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Brown v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1953-02-09· cited 2,465×
• Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-06-21· cited 871×
• United States v. Robertson
  Tenth Circuit· 1995-01-23· cited 229×
• United States v. Robert Louis Ammidown, United States of America v. Robert L. Ammidown
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-05-10· cited 193×
• United States v. Robert James Miller
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-12-28· cited 102×
• Myers v. Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-06-27· cited 83×
• United States v. Greg Moore
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-11-27· cited 76×
• State v. Guthrie
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-01-27· cited 75×
• State Ex Rel. Brewer v. Starcher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-10-27· cited 74×
• People v. Grove
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1997-07-29· cited 59×
• United States v. Rodney Delegal
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-05-14· cited 46×
• United States of America, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Sharon M. Shepherd, A/K/A Sharon S. Ortega, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  D.C. Circuit· 1997-03-04· cited 36×
• United States v. Danny Maddox, United States of America v. Norman L. Robinson, Jr.
  D.C. Circuit· 1995-05-12· cited 33×
• People v. Cobb
  California Court of Appeal· 1983-01-28· cited 28×
• Hare v. SUPER. COURT, IN AND FOR CTY. OF PIMA
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-10-20· cited 25×