MacDonald 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 defendant was precluded from any claim of plain error on appeal because he waived his right to object to certain comments made by the prosecutor during trial
• permitting cross-examination of a testifying defendant on pre-arrest silence and statements, and post-arrest statements, but not post-arrest silence
• permitting cross-examination of a testifying defendant on pre-arrest silence and statements, and post-arrest statements, but not post-arrest silence
• distinguishing Doyle and holding the State properly impeached the defendant’s “credibility using his pre-arrest prior inconsistent statements, voluntarily given in spite of his Miranda rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Watkins
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2012-04-17· cited 21×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-11-09· cited 20×
• State v. Tucker
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2007-04-17· cited 18×
• Adkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-03-15· cited 1×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-12-29· cited 1×
• Gabino v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-07-30
• Lara v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-08-20
• State v. Taylor
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-09-20
• State v. Taylor
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-09-23
• Trala v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-12-22
• Seeney v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2022-10-20
• State v. David Elder
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-09-13
• Elder v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-10-07

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Kirby v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-07· cited 3,001×
• Jenkins v. Anderson
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-10· cited 1,359×
• Anderson v. Charles
  Supreme Court· 1980-08-11· cited 896×
• Raffel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1926-06-07· cited 374×
• Getz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-02-29· cited 204×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-03-03· cited 118×
• Jensen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-11· cited 82×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-02-25· cited 75×
• DeJesus v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-03-07· cited 57×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-05-22· cited 41×
• MacDonald v. Delaware
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-07-27· cited 24×
• Tice v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-04-26· cited 21×
• Hall v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-06-10· cited 15×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-03-13· cited 13×