Gonzalez 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 the defendant was harmed by the prosecutor’s closing argument which compared the defendant to Osama Bin Laden at a time when the events of September 11th were fresh in the collective minds of the jurors
• making direct comparison between defendant’s offense with Osama bin Laden’s orchestration of 911 attacks and effectively asking jury to punish him as they would bin Laden
• improper conduct where “the prosecutor’s argument effectively asked the jury to punish appellant as they would punish Osama bin Laden”
• \Yet there was no time for the harmful impact of these statements to be attenuated over the course of the trial or sentencing hearing.\
• prosecutor's comparison of the defendant to terrorist Osama bin Laden was improper
• prosecutor's comparison of the defendant to terrorist Osama bin Laden was improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-08-26· cited 177×
• State v. Plambeck
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-23· cited 129×
• In Re Guerra
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2007-10-16· cited 56×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-02-17· cited 43×
• Lewis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-03-22· cited 22×
• State v. EDWARD M.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2012-05-15· cited 5×
• Acklin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2017-12-15· cited 2×
• James Anthony Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-08-26
• David Denmark v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2004-02-20
• in the Matter of the Estate of Charles E. Killian
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-04-05
• Juan Antonio Baca v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2006-02-28
• Gordon Newell Lewis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-03-22
• Cheryl Ann Aplin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-12-02
• Van Kevin Gould v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-08-31
• Bobby Lee Hranicky v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-08-12
• Thomas Clay v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-07-15
• Tony Wayne Cornett v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-04-15
• Reidie Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-08-04
• Enrique Valenzuela, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-06-30
• Leoncio Lozano v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2006-10-26

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mosley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-07-01· cited 2,969×
• Wesbrook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 2,816×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 2,567×
• McDuff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-22· cited 1,412×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-05-17· cited 727×
• Prystash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 668×
• Gaddis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-25· cited 445×
• Borjan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-21· cited 409×
• Rocha v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-04-12· cited 402×
• McKay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-02· cited 356×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-12-11· cited 292×
• Beier v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-27· cited 223×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-18· cited 202×
• State Ex Rel. Hill v. Pirtle
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-09-14· cited 183×
• State Ex Rel. Eidson v. Edwards
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-06-27· cited 158×
• Everett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-16· cited 144×
• Cawley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-11-20· cited 117×
• Blansett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-09-14· cited 112×
• Melton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-07-02· cited 100×
• Morrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-12-10· cited 82×