Cook v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring proof of criminal conviction to rebut analogous mitigating factor under Alabama statute
• aggravating circumstance of pecuniary gain should not be applied to murder during a robbery
• applying pecuniary gain aggravator to a situation already condemned under robbery aggravator inappropriate
• defendants are presumed innocent until convicted — this fundamental tenet prohibits use against an individual of unproven charges in the life or death situation presented at the sentencing stage of a capital trial
• dual application of robbery-murder and pecuniary gain aggravators “in effect condemn[s] [the defendant] twice for the same culpable act — stealing money”
• \robbery\ and \pecuniary gain\ factors overlap, \in effect condemning Cook twice for the same culpable act — stealing money\ and so pecuniary gain factor cannot be considered by trial judge who under statute determines sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Jenkins
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1984-12-17· cited 1,098×
• State v. Ramseur
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-03-05· cited 731×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• People v. Melton
  California Supreme Court· 1988-03-03· cited 430×
• People v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-07-30· cited 410×
• Commonwealth v. Lesko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-24· cited 398×
• Willie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 380×
• State v. Brett
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-04-04· cited 373×
• People v. Booker
  California Supreme Court· 2011-01-20· cited 367×
• Kuenzel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-06-29· cited 336×
• People v. Bean
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 332×
• State v. Bey
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-08-02· cited 292×
• United States v. John Javilo McCullah
  Tenth Circuit· 1996-02-05· cited 265×
• People v. Harris
  California Supreme Court· 1984-04-20· cited 239×
• State v. Rose
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-09-22· cited 222×
• People v. Bigelow
  California Supreme Court· 1984-12-27· cited 216×
• State v. Bartholomew
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-24· cited 200×
• William L. Wiley v. Steve W. Puckett, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, and Mike Moore, Attorney General
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-08-05· cited 199×
• Hooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-07-28· cited 174×
• People v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-07-09· cited 154×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Gardner v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-22· cited 1,935×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-05-19· cited 102×
• Embrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1968-09-26· cited 77×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1961-06-22· cited 48×