Mullinax v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant compounded the delay in indictment by filing an interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s decision on a bond petition
• absent some unusual showing, anxiety or concern are not likely to be determinative in defendant’s favor
• “[T]o establish prejudice, the defendant must show actual anxiety and concern and specific evidence of how the delay impaired his ability to defend himself.”
• “Anxiety and concern of the accused are 27 always present to some extent, and thus absent some unusual showing are not likely to be determinative in defendant’s favor.”
• no evidence state’s negligence or deliberate act caused delay in indicting defendant
• the reason-for-the-delay factor was properly weighed against the defendant where the primary basis for the delay was a backlog at the state crime lab, which was compounded by the defendant’s filing of an interlocutory appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brannen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-05· cited 66×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 50×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 44×
• Rackoff v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-05· cited 28×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-03· cited 27×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 27×
• Nusser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-18· cited 25×
• Higgenbottom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-29· cited 23×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-19· cited 22×
• Lambert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-02· cited 20×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 17×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-10· cited 15×
• Ferguson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-01· cited 14×
• Sechler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-06· cited 14×
• State v. Stallworth
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-08-22· cited 12×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-04· cited 12×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-23· cited 12×
• Berryhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-27· cited 10×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-02· cited 10×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Boseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-24· cited 143×
• Hall v. Hopper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-06-02· cited 129×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-22· cited 66×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-09-11· cited 61×
• Mullinax v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-17· cited 53×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-10-18· cited 51×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-28· cited 48×
• McCulley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 44×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 39×
• Sorrells v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-07· cited 25×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-23· cited 25×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 24×
• Nealy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-09· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-10-11· cited 15×
• Stratton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-11-18· cited 8×