Morales v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that conviction for possession of PCP is “not relevant to credibility” and “would not be admissible for purposes of impeachment”
• “A trial court is required to inform an unrepresented defendant of the constitutional right to remain silent or to testify.”
• “Because the judge may have misled [the defendant] regarding impeachment by prior convictions and, thereby, influenced him not to testify, we must reverse.”
• possession of CDS not admissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-25· cited 374×
• Oken v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-09-17· cited 141×
• Thanos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-04-05· cited 64×
• State v. Giddens
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-10· cited 50×
• State v. Westpoint
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-05-08· cited 30×
• Sutton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-06· cited 25×
• Hare v. Motor Vehicle Administration
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-04-14· cited 24×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-02-24· cited 20×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-03-30· cited 19×
• Tilghman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-29· cited 16×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-07-27· cited 14×
• Keyes v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-01-28· cited 13×
• State v. Tuplin
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2006-07-06· cited 12×
• Fulp v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-02-03· cited 11×
• Giddens v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-04· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-05-07· cited 8×
• Winters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-25· cited 8×
• Dallas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-04-26· cited 7×
• Gregory v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-11-24· cited 5×
• Savoy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-07-31· cited 5×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Malloy v. Hogan
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 3,675×
• Rock v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 2,329×
• Carter v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-09· cited 552×
• Prout v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-01-07· cited 105×
• State v. Duckett
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-06-26· cited 64×
• Stevens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-06-17· cited 61×
• Gilliam v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-09-25· cited 43×
• State v. Joynes
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-11-02· cited 22×
• Nesbit v. Cumberland Contracting Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1950-07-19· cited 21×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-01-13· cited 14×
• Lowery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-11-23· cited 12×
• Horne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-09· cited 9×
• Hamilton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1989-04-04· cited 7×