Delacruz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that whether an accused understood the Miranda warnings depends on the totality of the circumstances, not solely on the interpreter’s skill, and that an imperfect translation of the rights does not rule out a valid waiver as long as the accused understood the warnings
• holding that whether an accused understood the Miranda warnings depends on 8 the totality of the circumstances, not solely on the interpreter’s skill, and that an imperfect translation of the rights does not rule out a valid waiver as long as the accused understood the warnings
• “Resolving evidentiary conflicts and inconsistencies, and assessing witness credibility, are the province of the factfinder, not this Court.” (punctuation omitted)
• “ ‘A mere verbal inaccuracy resulting from a slip of the tongue which does not clearly mislead or confuse the jury is not reversible error.’ ” (citation omitted)
• decided prior to effective date of plain error rule as to charge; verbal inaccuracy from slip of tongue which does not clearly mislead or confuse jury not reversible error
• “With regard to the crime of cruelty to children, criminal intent may be inferred from conduct before, during and after the commission of the crime.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Perry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-08-09· cited 97×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 70×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 58×
• Albarran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-07-29· cited 50×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 45×
• Rainwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 36×
• Lebis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 35×
• Finley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-10-05· cited 34×
• Vasquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 29×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 28×
• Greeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 24×
• Rawls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 23×
• Mister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 22×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 21×
• Roscoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 20×
• DUNCAN v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-19· cited 19×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 19×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 17×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 16×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Duckworth v. Eagan
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 652×
• De Palma v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-09-08· cited 211×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 102×
• Buice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-22· cited 83×
• Dobbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-06· cited 72×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 61×
• Brewton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-22· cited 47×
• Osborne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-21· cited 43×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-04-02· cited 34×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 30×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-19· cited 30×
• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 26×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-28· cited 23×
• Nguyen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 22×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-06· cited 22×
• Choi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-04-13· cited 17×
• Gentry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-01· cited 16×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-25· cited 15×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 12×