Couch v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• saying that “[t]he question of voluntary and knowing waiver of rights by a juvenile depends upon an analysis of nine factors,” but then concluding that the trial court properly admitted the juvenile’s statement “[c]onsidering all the circumstances”
• prosecutor properly drew inference in closing after defense referred to witness in opening but did not produce that witness
• superior court properly exercised jurisdiction over juvenile charged with murder and other crimes that were punishable by life imprisonment or death
• “[t]he age referred to in [OCGA § 16-3-1] is, of course, biological age. Nothing evidences a legislative intent to refer to ‘mental age’ - if, indeed, such a thing could ever be determined.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 52×
• Blige v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-28· cited 18×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-12-14· cited 17×
• Beck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-27· cited 14×
• In the Interest of C. R.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-01· cited 4×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-28· cited 2×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-04· cited 1×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-23· cited 135×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-03-15· cited 75×
• Orkin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-27· cited 75×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-09-29· cited 46×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-07-01· cited 28×
• Howe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-05· cited 23×
• Relyea v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-02· cited 22×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-14· cited 7×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-04· cited 2×