Givens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• lack of testimony by Crime Lab employee who originally received exhibits does not break the chain of custody
• lack of testimony by Crime Lab employee who originally received exhibits does not break the chain of custody
• lack of testimony by crime lab employee who originally received exhibits does not break the chain of custody
• lack of testimony by crime lab employee who originally received exhibits does not break the chain of custody
• “[s]ince there is no affirmative evidence of tampering, the trial court did not err in treating the Georgia Crime Lab as a single ‘link’ in the chain of custody for admissibility purposes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• Maldonado v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-23· cited 26×
• McMillan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-11-05· cited 24×
• Postell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-09· cited 20×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-05· cited 14×
• Davidson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-04· cited 13×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-13· cited 12×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-06· cited 8×
• NATIONS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-09· cited 8×
• Ashley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-18· cited 6×
• Riddles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-09-12· cited 4×
• Eaton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-20· cited 3×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-09-01· cited 2×
• Gay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-25· cited 2×
• Homer Ashley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-18

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-06· cited 72×
• Law v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-10-07· cited 50×
• Law v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-02-08· cited 14×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-02-12· cited 11×