Parks 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 defendant’s right to be present does not extend to bench conferences on “legal” and “scheduling” issues in which defense counsel participated and to which defendant could not have made a meaningful contribution
• defendant’s right to be present not violated by his absence from bench conferences discussing legal matters where no witnesses discussed their testimony
• no fair trial violation where trial court intentionally excluded defendant from bench conferences relating solely to legal issues and defense counsel was present
• no error in excluding defendant from bench conferences that “discussed legal matters about which [defendant] would have known very little or nothing”
• trial court did not err when it gave limiting instruction on prior difficulties at the time that evidence was introduced
• defendant’s absence from conferences that discussed legal matters, such as objections and the admission of exhibits, did not violate his right to be present

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-22· cited 78×
• Zamora v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 54×
• Heywood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-28· cited 49×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 35×
• Daughtie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 31×
• Upton v. Parks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 30×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 29×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 26×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-20· cited 25×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 22×
• Champ v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 20×
• Mathis v. State.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-07· cited 19×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-09· cited 16×
• Kesterson v. Jarrett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 16×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 13×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 11×
• JOHNSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-29· cited 10×
• Woodward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-07-15· cited 9×
• Engle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-21· cited 9×
• Lyde v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-08-25· cited 8×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Snyder v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 2,822×
• Kentucky v. Stincer
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-19· cited 1,461×
• United States v. Gagnon
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-13· cited 1,062×
• Wall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 183×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-09-17· cited 68×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 60×
• United States v. Boyd
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-12-19· cited 43×
• McPherson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 34×
• United States v. Ahmad Bishawi, Adolph Bradley and Carlan D. Hodges
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-11-14· cited 23×
• Yates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 14×
• Malaguti v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 10×
• Tumlin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 7×
• Mancill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-05· cited 5×