Diamond 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 defendant was still in the commission of a burglary, despite its technical completion, when she caused the death of three persons during a police chase that began at the scene of the burglary
• holding that defendant was still in the commission of a burglary, despite its technical completion, when she caused the death of three persons during a police chase that began at the scene of the burglary
• explaining that the vehicular homicide count was correctly treated as surplusage to the felony murder based on burglary conviction because the defendant “can be convicted only once for the death of each victim”
• explaining that the vehicular homicide count was correctly treated as surplusage to the felony murder based on burglary conviction because the defendant “can be convicted only once for the death of each victim”
• vacating conviction for homicide by vehicle because the trial court also had convicted the defendant of felony murder, and those two crimes did not merge
• felony murder conviction upheld for homicides caused in vehicle collision while defendant was fleeing scene of burglary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 83×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-15· cited 71×
• State v. Pierce
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-06-22· cited 66×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 65×
• Westmoreland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 51×
• Gomez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 51×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 34×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-07· cited 24×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 23×
• Love v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-22· cited 17×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-10· cited 14×
• Starks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-11-05· cited 6×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-23· cited 5×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-10-08· cited 4×
• Hamby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-07· cited 3×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 1×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12
• Jerry Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-06-26

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Renner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-07· cited 120×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 48×
• Bankston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-04-20· cited 24×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-05-06· cited 14×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-08· cited 10×