Cortez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• characterizing child abuse as “a multi-purpose statutory offense that can be committed in any of several different ways”
• stating that when it is unclear from the record whether the jury found “separate insults” to the victim to support separate sentences for battery and fourth degree sexual offense, the court must view the verdict in the light most favorable to the defendant and merge the offenses.
• advising courts on how to instruct juries to avoid merger problems
• advising courts on how to instruct juries to avoid merger problems
• “In a jury trial, the solution…is the giving of an appropriate instruction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Nicolas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-08· cited 56×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-04-29· cited 30×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-09-02· cited 29×
• Gerald v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-03-07· cited 25×
• Deese v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-17· cited 19×
• State v. Lucius
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1995-07-27· cited 14×
• State v. Frazier
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-07-14· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-05-31· cited 10×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Snowden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-14· cited 113×
• State v. Lancaster
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-07· cited 110×
• Raymond Pandelli v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1980-11-13· cited 97×
• Nightingale v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-06-10· cited 72×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-08-15· cited 62×
• State v. Boozer
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-10-01· cited 41×
• In Re Montrail M.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-02-24· cited 38×
• Eldridge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-02-10· cited 29×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-03-07· cited 21×
• Biggus v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-08-16· cited 21×