Bright 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 “any decision to hold a trial in a prison must be subjected to the strictest scrutiny, and that decision must be supported by compelling reasons”
• declining to adopt a bright-line rule that convening a criminal trial in a prison is per se prohibited under the Sixth Amendment
• declining to adopt a bright-line rule that convening a criminal trial in a prison is per se prohibited under the Sixth Amendment
• “[W]e are unwilling to flatly declare that the Alaska Constitution prohibits holding a criminal trial in a prison under any and all circumstances.”
• absent showing of compelling reasons, criminal trial held in prison violated federal and state right to public trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Goodman Associates, LLC v. WP Mountain Properties, LLC
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2010-01-11· cited 881×
• Lilly v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-04-18· cited 72×
• State v. Jaime
  Washington Supreme Court· 2010-05-27· cited 45×
• Purvis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 22×
• State v. Cavan
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2004-09-30· cited 21×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-06-22· cited 20×
• Daniel Lee Dixon v. State
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2014-09-08· cited 5×
• People v. Barnum
  California Court of Appeal· 2001-04-18· cited 3×
• Lilly, Conrad
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-04-18

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re Oliver
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 2,065×
• Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1980-07-02· cited 1,951×
• Estes v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,725×
• Gannett Co. v. DePasquale
  Supreme Court· 1979-07-02· cited 1,226×
• People v. Jones
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-06-14· cited 211×
• People v. Jelke
  New York Court of Appeals· 1954-12-31· cited 155×
• State v. Lane
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1979-12-12· cited 78×
• State v. Clouatre
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-12-17· cited 25×
• Vescuso v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-09-15· cited 21×
• Cheely v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1993-11-02· cited 18×
• Howard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 17×
• Renkel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-03-15· cited 11×
• Wettanen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-01-14· cited 11×
• State v. Angaiak
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1993-03-05· cited 10×
• Aldridge v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-11-23· cited 5×