Diaz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• State has the burden to disprove a defendant’s affirmative defense of justification beyond a reasonable doubt
• “When a defendant produces evidence that he was justified in using deadly force, the burden is on the State to disprove that affirmative defense of justification beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Riley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-05· cited 18×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-24· cited 13×
• McNeil v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 9×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-07· cited 1×
• Nekia Shorlet Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-07

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Andrews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 28×