Lyles v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding trial court’s admission of confession where, among other things, defendant “signed a form acknowledging that he had not been promised anything”
• rejecting defendant’s assertion “that the trial court should have suppressed his confession because the investigator told defendant that if he cooperated, the investigator would let the district attorney know of his cooperation and it might help him”
• rejecting defendant’s assertion “that the trial court should have suppressed his confession because the investigator told defendant that if he cooperated, the investigator would let the district attorney know of his cooperation and it might help him”
• a finding of voluntariness is appropriate where a suspect executes a written waiver which includes a statement that he received no promises
• detective telling defendant that he would let the district attorney know about cooperation and that it might result in reduced sentence when defendant signed a declaration that his statement was made without promise of hope or reward does not make statement involuntary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Leigh v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-12-03· cited 29×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-13· cited 21×
• Selley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-16· cited 13×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 12×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-16· cited 11×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-16· cited 9×
• Frei v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-20· cited 9×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-19· cited 6×
• BUDHANI v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-07· cited 5×
• Miles v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-17· cited 3×
• In the Interest of M. M.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-04· cited 3×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-11· cited 2×
• McFadden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-23· cited 1×
• State v. Munoz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-02· cited 1×
• State v. Miguel Munoz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-02

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Teague v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-01· cited 162×
• Askea v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-03-12· cited 31×
• Gadson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-18· cited 29×
• Arline v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-23· cited 23×
• Cline v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-02-22· cited 11×
• Helton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-29· cited 5×