Christopher 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 where a suspect was given Miranda warnings and then immediately spoke without police prompting, that statement was voluntary and therefore admissible
• although there was an odor of alcohol, the defendant did not appear to be intoxicated and spoke coherently
• “ ‘It is not necessary to give the exact language of a request to charge when the applicable principles are fairly covered by the charge as given.’ ”
• “It is not necessary to give the exact language of a request to charge” when the charge given fully explained the concept of justification, (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Grimes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 24×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 21×
• Short v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-14· cited 15×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-14· cited 14×
• Dimauro v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-05-26· cited 14×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-08-05· cited 4×
• Hemidi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-28· cited 4×
• Armstrong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-27· cited 4×
• Welker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-23· cited 3×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-18· cited 2×
• Clark v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-31· cited 1×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-27
• McWhorter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-24

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Burgeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-09· cited 126×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-07· cited 99×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-10· cited 12×
• Cole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-04-30· cited 8×
• Carver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-08· cited 7×
• Hallman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 5×