Collins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a question posed at trial by the prosecutor about appellant’s failure to talk to police may be improper under Mallory
• recognizing that a question posed at trial by the prosecutor about appellant’s failure to talk to police may be improper under Mallory
• holding that, while the prosecutor’s question was improper, in light of the overwhelming evidence, there was no reversible error in the denial of defendant’s motion for mistrial
• defendant did not open door to questions about his silence by testifying that he turned himself in to police when he saw on the news that the victim had been shot
• defendant did not open door to questions about his silence by testifying that he turned himself in to police when he saw on the news that the victim had been shot
• “Despite the improper questioning by the prosecutor, reversal of the conviction is not warranted, where there is overwhelming evidence of guilt or overwhelming evidence refuting the defendant’s claim of [an affirmative defense].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 39×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 38×
• State v. Sims
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 37×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-15· cited 34×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 8×
• Gooden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-18· cited 6×
• State v. Otto Orr
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-08· cited 5×
• Ogletree v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 4×
• Dumas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-18· cited 2×
• Jimmy Gooden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-18
• Randall Floyd Ogletree v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-03
• Gregory Dumas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-18

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• Chapel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 122×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 83×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 41×
• Lampley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 32×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 13×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 10×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 8×
• Fullwood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 7×
• Branchfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 5×