Melton 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 State may retry defendant on a specific charge “without violating the Double Jeopardy Clause, because there was sufficient evidence at trial to support that conviction”
• holding that State may retry defendant on a specific charge “without violating the Double 19 Jeopardy Clause, because there was sufficient evidence at trial to support that conviction”
• permitting retrial when sufficient evidence existed, despite reversing conviction on other ground
• State failed to prove that residence where appellant committed sexual crimes against victim was in county and thus presented no evidence supporting venue in county under OCGA § 17-2-2 (h
• “Evidence of a victim’s inability to give consent can be used to impute the element of force in certain sexual abuse cases involving a victim who is intoxicated, drugged, or mentally incompetent.”
• sodomy lesser included offense of aggravated sodomy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• In the Interest of D. D.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-11· cited 26×
• In the Interest of B. R.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-14· cited 21×
• Leftwich v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-07· cited 17×
• Cook v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-08-08· cited 13×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-04· cited 11×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-01· cited 10×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 10×
• Frazier v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-10· cited 9×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-15· cited 9×
• Powers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-09· cited 8×
• Eller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-16· cited 7×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-24· cited 7×
• Mayes v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 7×
• In the Interest of M. S.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-20· cited 7×
• Mock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-16· cited 6×
• Ayers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-16· cited 6×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-13· cited 4×
• French v. Carter
  S.D. Georgia· 2012-02-15· cited 4×
• GOMEZ-OLIVA v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-18· cited 3×
• RODRIGUEZ v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-27· cited 2×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 243×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 106×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-26· cited 101×
• Brewer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 54×
• Demetrios v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-24· cited 45×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-06-24· cited 39×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-21· cited 36×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-05· cited 28×
• Hardeman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-09· cited 27×
• Tompkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 19×
• Hixson v. Hickson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-17· cited 18×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-15· cited 16×
• Stover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-12-04· cited 16×
• Chaparro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-28· cited 14×
• Baise v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-14· cited 10×
• Raby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-27· cited 8×
• Page v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-09· cited 7×
• In the Interest of C. C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-07-24· cited 7×