Cruz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a supplemental closing argument would not have cured the problem created by the court's eleventh hour insertion of a new theory of culpability
• finding prejudice where the jury was presented with a new theory of culpability after closing arguments
• finding prejudice where the jury was presented with a new theory of culpability after closing arguments
• reviewing cases involving supplemental jury instructions giving new theories of liability
• finding abuse of discretion when court gave “the jury a supplemental instruction on attempted battery during the jury’s deliberations, because the court at the close of evidence indicated that it would only instruct the jury on battery, the sole theory . . . elected by the State.”
• “We are not persuaded that a supplemental closing argument would have cured the problem created by the court’s eleventh hour insertion of this new theory of culpability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Melvin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-21· cited 419×
• United States v. Alston
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-07-02· cited 78×
• Atkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-08-18· cited 31×
• United States v. Donnell
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-10-27· cited 21×
• Snyder v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-03-20· cited 21×
• Appraicio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-03-26· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-12-30· cited 15×
• State v. DEVOID
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2010-09-17· cited 13×
• COLEMAN-FULLER v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-05-27· cited 13×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-07-07· cited 12×
• State v. Bircher
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-02-23· cited 10×
• State v. Stewart
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2019-06-25· cited 8×
• State v. Sayles
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-01-29· cited 8×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2016-11-16· cited 6×
• Mulley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-06-02· cited 5×
• Bircher v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-02-02· cited 4×
• Sweeney v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-08-01· cited 4×
• Simms v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-05-01· cited 2×
• Com. v. Orie Melvin, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-21
• Juan Pablo B. v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-09-29

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Herring v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 1,330×
• United States v. Willie Horton
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-12-26· cited 132×
• United States v. Jeffrey Gaskins, AKA Jeffery Gaskin
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-06-17· cited 128×
• Snowden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-14· cited 113×
• Lamb v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-01· cited 85×
• People v. Millsap
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2000-01-27· cited 74×
• Lovell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-11-12· cited 69×
• State v. Baby
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-04-16· cited 50×
• People v. Clark
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1996-12-27· cited 48×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-12-19· cited 47×
• State v. Ransom
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-01-24· cited 33×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-06-11· cited 33×
• Brogden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-01-18· cited 30×
• Yantz v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1956-06-15· cited 27×
• Duckworth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-08-23· cited 16×