Jones v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that, unlike the former rule, the present rule in Maryland no longer requires a trial court to inform the defendant of his right of allocution
• stating that the Court “agree[s] with the reasoning of Sanders”
• analyzing the scholarly basis regarding the impact that viewing forensic crime dramas has upon juror behavior
• “The trial court is charged, therefore, with ‘exercising its sentencing discretion’ as if the sentence was occurring for the first time.”
• the “grounds for appellate review of sentences ... recognized in this State” include “whether the sentencing judge was motivated by ... impermissible considerations” (internal citations and quotations omitted)
• “A trial judge has ‘very broad discretion in sentencing.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-07-10· cited 47×
• Twigg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-03-28· cited 37×
• ABDUL-MALEEK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-04-27· cited 21×
• Sharp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-03-25· cited 13×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-12-05· cited 13×
• Cruz-Quintanilla v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-07-31· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-11-18· cited 6×
• Twigg v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-10-01· cited 5×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-10-26· cited 5×
• Malvo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2022-08-26· cited 5×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-10-26· cited 4×
• Mainor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-08-16· cited 4×
• Carpenter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-12-01· cited 2×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-07-01
• Smallwood v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-06-04
• Malvo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2022-11-18
• Sjon Jones v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-03-26
• Reyes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-11-24
• Covington v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2026-05-01