Ex Parte Griffin

How courts have described this case

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

• “[W]e follow the United States Supreme Court’s holding in Chambers [v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973) (Chambers),] and hold that [the defendant’s] constitutional rights supersede the hearsay rule in the Alabama Rules of Evidence”
• before evidence that some other person committed the crime charged can be admissible, three elements must exist: (1) evidence must relate to \res gestae\ of the crime; (2) evidence must exclude the accused as perpetrator of the offense; and (3

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Stallworth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-01-31· cited 103×
• Ex Parte Hall
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2001-06-01· cited 85×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-03-02· cited 63×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-06-27· cited 61×
• Snyder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-10-31· cited 48×
• Gobble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-02-05· cited 42×
• Waldrop v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-12-01· cited 41×
• VanPelt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2009-12-18· cited 41×
• Centobie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-08-31· cited 37×
• Flowers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-10-27· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Drayton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-10-01· cited 24×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-03-01· cited 23×
• Reynolds v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-10-01· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2009-10-02· cited 20×
• Wiggins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-05-02· cited 20×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2004-05-28· cited 14×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-01-31· cited 14×
• Snyder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-03-30· cited 9×
• Petric v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-02-15· cited 9×
• James v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2006-04-28· cited 9×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• People of the Territory of Guam v. Anthony Camacho Ignacio
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-11-18· cited 110×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-03-22· cited 76×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1953-03-13· cited 66×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-02-04· cited 40×
• Whitt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-04-03· cited 28×
• Ex Parte Walker
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-08-21· cited 16×
• Stokes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-06-26· cited 14×
• United States v. Johnson
  M.D. Alabama· 1995-10-17· cited 11×