Lawson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “When a jury is asked to place themselves in the shoes of the victim, the attorney improperly appeals to their prejudices and asks them to abandon their neutral fact finding role.”
• prosecutor may make arguments warranted by evidence or reasonable inferences therefrom
• prosecutor may make arguments warranted by evidence or reasonable inferences therefrom
• “ ‘[Rjeversal is only required where it appears that the remarks of the prosecutor actually misled the jury or were likely to have misled or influenced the jury to the prejudice of the accused.’ ” (quoting Spain v. State, 386 Md. 145, 158, 872 A.2d 25 (2005))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Cos
  Tenth Circuit· 2007-08-21· cited 81×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-06-13· cited 53×
• Derr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-08-22· cited 52×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-04-16· cited 47×
• Fuentes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-07-12· cited 45×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-05-08· cited 39×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-06-05· cited 34×
• Donaldson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-10-26· cited 30×
• Myer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-03-10· cited 28×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-08-26· cited 26×
• State v. Stringfellow
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-04-23· cited 25×
• Savage v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-08-04· cited 22×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-01-29· cited 21×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-12-12· cited 21×
• James v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-03-24· cited 19×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-16· cited 17×
• Leidig v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-08-16· cited 15×
• Whack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-08-21· cited 15×
• Jones-Harris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-03-13· cited 12×
• Coates v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-08-30· cited 12×

Cites

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

• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-05-15· cited 588×
• Dunlop v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1897-02-15· cited 337×
• Danial Siebert v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-28· cited 310×
• Wilhelm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-26· cited 259×
• Oaks v. Connors
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-06-26· cited 257×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-07-17· cited 171×
• Marriott Employees Federal Credit Union v. Motor Vehicle Administration
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-29· cited 162×
• Degren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-14· cited 158×
• McKenna v. Nevada
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 153×
• Coburn v. Coburn
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-04-17· cited 149×
• I. W. Berman Properties v. Porter Bros.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-09-08· cited 148×
• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-05-17· cited 137×
• State v. Hutchinson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-02-25· cited 131×
• State v. Snowden
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-02-07· cited 113×
• People v. McNeal
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1997-01-30· cited 113×
• Beahm v. Shortall
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-02-07· cited 103×
• Rubin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-06· cited 102×