Height v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming denial of motion to suppress under a clearly erroneous standard where trial court considered conflicting evidence of defendant’s mental capacity and concluded that defendant 22 understood his rights and the consequences of waiving them
• “A trial court’s findings as to factual determinations and credibility relating to the admissibility of a confession will be upheld on appeal unless clearly erroneous.”
• court did not err in denying mistrial after prosecutor interrupted and redirected police officer during officer’s testimony about previous instances when he “could have charged” defendant
• trial court’s curative instruction to disregard any evidence related to prior conduct remedied any prejudicial impact of the officer’s statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-16· cited 40×
• Ferguson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-07-22· cited 25×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-04· cited 24×
• Boseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-31· cited 8×
• Crane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-31· cited 7×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-29· cited 6×
• Downer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 6×
• Ferguson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-27· cited 5×
• BATTISE v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-15· cited 5×
• State v. Sammons
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-31· cited 4×
• Serrano v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-13· cited 2×
• Grant-Farley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-26· cited 2×
• VANDALL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 1×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-28· cited 118×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• McDougal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 45×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-08· cited 32×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-14· cited 25×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-20· cited 25×
• Height v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 16×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 10×
• Coppock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-08· cited 5×