Ballard v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• demonstrating that a defendant was properly Mirandized, agreed to waive his rights, and then while later being interrogating, invoked his right to remain silent
• “In short, if, from the perspective of a reasonable officer, the suspect’s statement is not an unambiguous or unequivocal request for counsel, then the officers have no obligation to stop questioning him.”
• “In short, if, from the perspective of a reasonable officer, the suspect’s statement is not an unambiguous or unequivocal request for counsel, then the officers have no obligation to stop questioning him.”
• suspect invoked right to counsel by stating \I'd rather appoint a lawyer\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wimbish v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-09-29· cited 16×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-12-18· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-10-01· cited 11×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-03-16· cited 10×
• State v. Richardson
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2014-06-05· cited 9×
• Malaska v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-02-28· cited 6×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-10-25· cited 4×
• Madrid v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-10-01· cited 4×
• Gupta v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-03-24· cited 2×
• Vargas-Salguero v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-06-01· cited 2×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-10-02

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-24· cited 2,777×
• McNeil v. Wisconsin
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-13· cited 1,818×
• Berghuis v. Thompkins
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-01· cited 1,592×
• Smith v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1984-12-10· cited 1,225×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-01-31· cited 57×
• State v. Harris
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2010-03-02· cited 25×
• In Re Synchronoss Securities Litigation
  D. New Jersey· 2010-04-07· cited 25×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-11-03· cited 22×
• Prioleau v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-12-09· cited 21×
• Minehan v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-10-01· cited 14×
• McDaniel v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-10-27· cited 5×