Otis 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 the trial court’s declaration of a mistrial was based on an incorrect understanding of a legal issue and concluding that, “[a]ccordingly, the circumstances in th[e] case did not demand entry of mistrial”
• “‘(W)here a mistrial has been improperly declared (over the protest of the accused), the prisoner can not be again tried.’”
• retrial was barred after a mistrial that was improperly based on the defendant’s supposed violation of a notice requirement that was inapplicable under controlling precedent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Meadows v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 12×
• Carman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 11×
• Honester v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 10×
• Laguerre v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 9×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Georgia Department of Natural Resources v. Center for a Sustainable Coast, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 133×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 46×
• Bagwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1907-08-08· cited 25×
• State v. Baker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 15×
• Abernathy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-16· cited 14×
• Crossley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-13· cited 13×