Palmer 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 severance of a joint trial was not required where the defendant claimed that he did not commit the crimes while his co-defendant claimed that the defendant pressured him into robbing the victims
• “Evidence of a defendant’s attempt to influence or intimidate a witness can serve as circumstantial evidence of guilt.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “In case after case where co-defendants acted in concert, [this Court has] found that severance was not required simply because the defendant argued about identity or the co-defendant blamed — or even put forth evidence against — the defendant.”
• “[E]ven when evidence of a threat to a witness is not connected to the defendant,” the trial court still has discretion to admit the evidence “if it is ‘relevant to explain the witness’s reluctant conduct on the witness stand.’”
• “[E]ven when evidence of a threat to a witness is not connected to the defendant,” the trial court still has discretion to admit the evidence “if it is ‘relevant to explain the witness’s reluctant conduct on the witness stand.’”
• “A trial court has the sua sponte duty to inquire into a defendant’s competency only when information becomes known to it, prior to or at the time of the trial, sufficient to raise a bona fide doubt regarding the de- fendant’s competence.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 63×
• Keller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 59×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 43×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 32×
• Naples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 29×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 23×
• DELOACH v. THE STATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 22×
• Walter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 21×
• Walker v. the States
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 19×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 18×
• SILLAH v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 17×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 14×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 14×
• Hurston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 14×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-01· cited 13×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 12×
• Newton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 9×
• Tyson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 8×
• KIRKLAND v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 8×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 77×
• Ballard v. State v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 52×
• Hendrix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 51×
• Metz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 45×
• Traylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 41×
• Biggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 37×
• Herbert v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 37×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 37×
• Barge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 29×
• Loren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 28×
• Kell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-26· cited 23×
• Fox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 20×
• Marquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 16×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 12×