Gregg v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that Crim. Proc. § 8-201 “provide[s] a remedy for persons convicted of serious crimes for which they are actually innocent.”
• establishing that although statutes are normally presumed to operate prospectively, statutes like CP § 8-201 that have a remedial effect and amendments thereto that only provide procedural changes may be given retrospective applica tion
• ordering testing of epithelial cells collected by police from the trigger of the murder weapon where identification was in issue and the defendant had accused the fellow occupant of his vehicle of being the true murderer
• “[Crim. Proc. §] 8-201 does not mandate a hearing on a petition brought under [Crim. Proc.] § 8-201.” (citation omitted)
• “[Crim. Proc. §] 8-201 does not mandate a hearing on a petition brought under [Crim. Proc.] § 8-201.” (citation omitted)
• “we do not interpret legislative acts to have been done for nonsensical reasons, nor do we construe statutory language in a manner that renders a portion of the law nugatory or superfluous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hood v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2011-09-15· cited 38×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-01-05· cited 33×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-07-13· cited 29×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-11-16· cited 24×
• Sam Yonga v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-01-28· cited 23×
• State v. Matthews
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-07-27· cited 22×
• Simms v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-07-24· cited 19×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-02-21· cited 17×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-12-18· cited 17×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-04-21· cited 16×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-06-23· cited 13×
• Horton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-12-21· cited 11×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-11-01· cited 11×
• Simms v. Shearin, Warden
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-02-24· cited 9×
• Smallwood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-01-23· cited 9×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-05-24· cited 7×
• Beaman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-06-21· cited 5×
• Mamsi Life & Health Insurance v. Kuei-I Wu
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-10-20· cited 4×
• Simms v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-11-23· cited 4×
• Satterfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2023-09-05· cited 4×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-18· cited 782×
• Langston v. Riffe
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-06-28· cited 98×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-10-24· cited 82×
• Ross v. State Board of Elections
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-06-23· cited 67×
• James Harvey v. Robert F. Horan, Jr., Commonwealth's Attorney, County of Fairfax, Jennifer Thompson Karen R. Pomer Jeri Elster, Amici Curiae
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-03-28· cited 54×
• Mason v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-04-02· cited 44×
• Arey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-08-01· cited 31×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-10-24· cited 26×
• State v. Williamson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-04-10· cited 4×