Dabney 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 judge “clearly did not sentence with a closed mind” where she permitted the defendant to express remorse, heard arguments from both attorneys, and invited the victim to make a statement
• concluding that the judge did not sentence with a closed mind where the judge listened to the defendant’s claims of remorse, considered both attorneys’ arguments, and asked whether the victim wanted to make a statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-02-19· cited 26×
• Longford-Myers v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-06-27· cited 6×
• Dabney v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-03-01· cited 2×
• Hohn v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-08-14
• Hickman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-09-10
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-02-18
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2023-11-07

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Weston v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-09-30· cited 81×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-06-19· cited 28×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1976-05-12· cited 20×
• Dabney v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-05-23· cited 18×
• Osburn v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1966-10-27· cited 13×