Beasley 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 that the statute of limitation for burglary began to run when fingerprint evidence was analyzed and matched, not when law-enforcement lifted the fingerprint from the crime scene
• rejecting defendant’s assertion that the State should have been charged with knowledge of his identity because it did not exercise reasonable diligence in matching his fingerprint until more than four years after the burglary
• providing that statute requires actual knowledge
• “[Ujnless and until [a fingerprint found at a crime scene] is matched to an actual person, it cannot be said that the police know who committed the crime.”
• “The fingerprint was apparently the only material clue. . . .”
• person unknown exception applied where police had no suspects and the only evidence was a fingerprint lifted from the scene of a burglary, which went unmatched until being run through a fingerprint database over four years later

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 71×
• Higgenbottom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-29· cited 23×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 19×
• English v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-25· cited 17×
• Merritt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-19· cited 14×
• McKeehan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-23· cited 12×
• McDaniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-22· cited 12×
• Scales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-15· cited 12×
• Jannuzzo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-09· cited 11×
• State v. Robins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-16· cited 10×
• State v. Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 9×
• Rader v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-08· cited 6×
• Kenerly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-22· cited 5×
• The State v. Watson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-10· cited 3×
• Paul F. Jannuzzo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-09
• Kevin Russell Kenerly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-22
• Angelia Countryman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-18
• Antonio Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-10-25

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-11-05· cited 55×
• People v. Seda
  New York Court of Appeals· 1999-05-11· cited 31×
• Kyles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-27· cited 21×
• Duncan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-11-21· cited 19×
• Borders v. Board of Trustees, VFW
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-20· cited 11×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1909-06-15· cited 11×
• State v. Escobar-Mendez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1999-02-25· cited 10×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-14· cited 10×
• State v. White
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-06-25· cited 8×
• State v. Baker
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1996-03-13· cited 6×