Jennings 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 a hospitalized defendant was not in custody for Miranda purposes where he had expressed that he 21 was suicidal and had not yet been released from medical treatment, but was not restrained when questioned
• concluding that the defendant was not in custody when he “was in a medical, rather than an investigative, setting” and when he was questioned by police officers in the hospital while unable to leave for medical reasons but not isolated by the police
• using officer’s testimony on whether defendant was in police custody or “was free to leave” to determine whether suspect was in custody tor Miranda purposes
• “[t]he burden is on the defendant to show... that he has a mental condition that should have been investigated and offered as proof of a defense to criminal liability ... or of his incompetence to stand trial”
• “[t]he burden is on the defendant to show . . . that he has a mental condition that should have been investigated and offered as proof of a defense to criminal liability . . . or of his incompetence to stand trial”
• “[I]t is irrelevant to the Miranda analysis that investigators (1) might have focused their suspicions upon the person being questioned, or (2) have already decided that they will take the person into custody and charge [him] with an offense.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Devega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 56×
• Whitus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 19×
• Valentine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 18×
• Issa v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-01-31· cited 15×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 13×
• Slack v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 12×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 11×
• Whittaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 11×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 10×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-27· cited 9×
• Timmreck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 8×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 8×
• Norwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 8×
• Crapps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-20· cited 8×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-01· cited 6×
• Dingler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-24· cited 6×
• State v. Kendrick
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-13· cited 6×
• Solano-Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-10· cited 5×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 5×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Yarborough v. Alvarado
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-01· cited 3,494×
• Thompson v. Keohane
  Supreme Court· 1995-11-29· cited 1,729×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 102×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-06-09· cited 84×
• Teal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 74×
• Martin v. Barrett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 31×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 30×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-05· cited 19×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 18×
• Bergeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 10×
• Moyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-02· cited 10×
• Mayberry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-27· cited 7×
• Alwin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-04-23· cited 5×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-11· cited 3×