Coleman 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 any error regarding alleged prosecutorial misconduct was harmless where there was independent evidence of defendant’s guilt
• observing that even if prosecutorial misconduct occurred, the misconduct was harmless because there was overwhelming independent evidence of the defendant’s guilt
• noting the overriding concern is whether the defendant was so prejudiced that he was placed in a “position of grave peril” to which he or she should not have been subjected
• “Where there is Court of Appeals of Indiana | Memorandum Decision 15A05-1507-CR-1029 | April 28, 2016 Page 10 of 12 overwhelming independent evidence of a defendant’s guilt, error made by a prosecutor during the closing argument is harmless.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Cooper v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-10-05· cited 297×
• Bruce Ryan v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2014-06-03· cited 230×
• Booher v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-08-20· cited 164×
• Schmidt v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-10-28· cited 53×
• Hyppolite v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-09-06· cited 37×
• Baer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-05-22· cited 33×
• McKinney v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-09-17· cited 23×
• Bassett v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2008-10-28· cited 22×
• Sobolewski v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-07-08· cited 21×
• Alexander K. Jerden v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-19· cited 19×
• Reynolds v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-10-27· cited 18×
• Patrick Nichols v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-09-06· cited 16×
• Michael Norris v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-11-14· cited 11×
• Benavides v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-05-19· cited 10×
• Bush v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-09-20· cited 5×
• VanWanzeele v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-07-30· cited 4×
• Wenzel Williams v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-03-31· cited 3×
• Muex v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-12-18· cited 2×
• Jennifer L. Patch v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-07-25
• Joseph T. Ford, III v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-11-18

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Arizona v. Fulminante
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 6,060×
• Maldonado v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1976-10-20· cited 345×
• Deboue v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-01· cited 160×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-29· cited 139×
• Bradley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-03-30· cited 84×
• Wisehart v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-03-19· cited 83×
• Kent v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-12-31· cited 62×
• McCollum v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-12-12· cited 57×
• Canaan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-07-28· cited 52×
• Fassoth v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-07-07· cited 47×
• State v. Magnuson
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1986-02-12· cited 25×
• Caffey v. UNUM Life Insurance Co. of America
  Supreme Court· 1999-03-29· cited 23×
• Lehman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-06-28· cited 18×
• Roller v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-11-05· cited 5×