Carter v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing under the Hanifa test because “[t]he character of the communication in the present case does not show that it could not have been prejudicial to Carter”
• finding prejudice where court told jury that the defendant would not be tried again on a specific count if that jury did not reach a verdict because it was inherently coercive in that it suggested that the defendant would go free if not convicted by that jury
• where the record did not show that the defendant knew of the trial court's ex parte communication with the jury, the error was not waived
• where the record did not show that the defendant knew of the trial court’s ex parte communication with the jury, the error was not waived
• “the transcript of the ensuing conversation between the trial court and the jurors show[ed] that the trial court went outside the bounds of [the] agreement” of the parties in its communication with the jurors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 42×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-06-24· cited 39×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 34×
• Champ v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 20×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-15· cited 14×
• Lester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 14×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-10· cited 10×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 10×
• Mills v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-01· cited 8×
• Lindsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-23· cited 7×
• MacK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-07-24· cited 5×
• Barnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-04· cited 4×
• Mayo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 4×
• Moon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-22· cited 3×
• Thornton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-25

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Timberlake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 307×
• Hanifa v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 157×
• Pennie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 50×
• Livingston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-29· cited 32×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-26· cited 26×
• Logan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-15· cited 17×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-07-27· cited 7×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-09· cited 7×
• McLeod v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 5×
• Preddie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-15· cited 3×