Brinson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the denial of a motion for a mistrial ordinarily amounts to an abuse of discretion only when “it is apparent that a mistrial is essential to the preservation of the right to a fair trial”
• appellant cannot claim error in trial court sending redacted copy of indictment to jury where he made no objection before the trial court
• whether to declare mistrial is in discretion of trial court and will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is “essential to the preservation of the right to a fair trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 39×
• Rafi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 38×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 13×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 5×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 2×
• Peter Ulbrich v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-03-14
• Kenneth Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-03-27

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Belton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 40×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 32×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 16×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 14×
• Lamon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-04-25· cited 8×