BUTLER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there was sufficient evidence that shootings were committed with an intent to further the gang’s interests where “there was evidence that the gang used prostitution and robbery of ‘johns’ to finance the gang and that the shootings resulted from that sort of 16 activity”
• nexus established when the gang used prostitution and robbery of “johns” to finance the gang and the shootings resulted from that sort of activity
• the gang evidence was highly probative and necessary to prove several elements of the Street Gang Act offense, including the existence of the gang
• ex- plaining that the defendant shot the victim with an intent to fur- ther the gang’s interests because “there was evidence that the gang used prostitution and robbery of ‘johns’ to finance the gang and that the shootings resulted from that sort of activity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 26×
• Monroe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-07· cited 18×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 14×
• Dunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-07· cited 1×
• Jarrett James McCloud v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-01
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18
• BOSTIC v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Christian Richards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-20
• McFarland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Bradford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-17
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Anglin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 118×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-12· cited 83×
• Brewner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 74×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 56×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-09-28· cited 41×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 41×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 32×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 30×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 26×
• Mack v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 8×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 7×