Owen 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 Owen failed to show prejudice from the denial of her motion to sever, because she “made no showing that her co-defendants would be more likely to testify if they were tried separately; nor did she show that her co-defendants’ testimony would tend to exculpate her”
• approving of a charge including only OCGA § 16-2-1 (a)’s definition of “crime” without suggesting that subsection (b)’s definition of “criminal negligence” must be included as well
• approving of a charge including only OCGA § 16-2-1 (a)’s definition of “crime” without suggesting that subsection (b)’s 8 definition of “criminal negligence” must be included as well
• a co-defendant’s statement, standing alone, must clearly incriminate the defendant for there to be a Bruton violation
• “For the admission of a co-defendant’s statements to constitute a Bruton violation[,] the statements standing alone must clearly inculpate the defendant.” (punctuation omitted)
• “[A] defendant must do more than raise the possibility that a separate trial would give him a better chance of acquittal. He must make a clear showing of prejudice and a consequent denial of due process.” (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Long v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 98×
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 80×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 78×
• Felder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 63×
• Sharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 56×
• Parnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-20· cited 48×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 44×
• Morris v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-21· cited 44×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 39×
• York v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-21· cited 38×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 37×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-28· cited 23×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-10· cited 22×
• Ham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-29· cited 22×
• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-03· cited 18×
• Spickler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 17×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-05· cited 16×
• Marquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 16×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-03· cited 12×
• Overstreet v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-02· cited 10×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Cain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-12· cited 220×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-13· cited 32×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 25×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-05· cited 15×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-11-06· cited 12×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-04-14· cited 8×