Donaldson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where the only conceivable purpose of defense counsel’s questions was to elicit testimony concerning defendant’s character, trial court did not err in holding state could introduce rebuttal evidence on the same subject
• if defendant intentionally elects to place his good character in issue, “the prosecutor may respond with evidence of the defendant’s bad character in the form of prior bad acts or other testimony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-18· cited 33×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-08· cited 23×
• Merritt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-26· cited 17×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-24· cited 7×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-24· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stanford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 32×
• Byrd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-16· cited 19×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-24· cited 18×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-04· cited 9×
• Stinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-06-18· cited 8×
• Renn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-19· cited 3×
• Hackett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-15· cited 3×