Clemmons v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that \[i]t is unmistakably clear\ that substantive use of the codefendant's guilty plea \was prejudicial\
• explaining that “ordinarily, the conviction or guilty plea of a co-perpetrator may not be used as substantive evidence of another’s guilt” and collecting cases
• finding that the trial court’s error in admitting evidence that a co-defendant had pled guilty to the same crime was not harmless and stating that the outcome of the case “depended largely on credibility — which of two versions the jury was going to believe
• “[OJrdinarily, the conviction or guilty plea of a co-perpetrator may not be used as substantive evidence of another’s guilt.” (emphasis added)
• collecting cases from numerous jurisdictions that demonstrate this principle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jones
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-04-26· cited 38×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-08-27· cited 35×
• State v. Joseph Kuchman
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2016-04-19· cited 9×
• Casey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-04· cited 8×
• State v. Flores
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2018-09-17· cited 3×
• West v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-12-28· cited 2×

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Darden
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-11-22· cited 301×
• State v. Salazar
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1992-12-17· cited 207×
• United States v. Jay Lewis Dworken, A/K/A Jason Lewis, Jay Lewis, United States of America v. William S. Gay, United States of America v. Steve Rogove
  First Circuit· 1988-10-17· cited 141×
• United States v. Toner
  Third Circuit· 1949-02-11· cited 126×
• United States v. Kenneth J. Bryza
  Seventh Circuit· 1975-08-25· cited 88×
• United States v. Robert Martinez, A/K/A \Robert Berk\
  Second Circuit· 1985-10-03· cited 86×
• United States v. Fernando Miranda
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-04-12· cited 69×
• United States v. Gambino
  Third Circuit· 1991-03-04· cited 66×
• United States v. Robert R. Hutchings
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-01-28· cited 59×
• United States v. Ralph Baez, Sr.
  Tenth Circuit· 1983-03-21· cited 53×
• United States v. William E. Fleetwood, III
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-02-24· cited 52×
• United States v. Larry C. Davis and John Newsome
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-01-25· cited 52×
• United States v. Milton R. Aronson
  Second Circuit· 1963-06-06· cited 49×
• Mercer v. Theriot
  Supreme Court· 1963-11-18· cited 44×
• United States v. James W. Griffin, A/K/A J.W. Griffin
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-12-19· cited 39×
• Hughes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-12-05· cited 38×
• State v. Robertson
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1985-04-26· cited 37×
• United States v. Roy Lee Leach
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-11-19· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-06-28· cited 31×
• United States v. Jerry Stanley Hansen
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-01-03· cited 30×