Pittman 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 detective’s “urg[ing] Pittman to tell the truth so that he could ‘work this’” was not an impermissible hope of benefit
• holding that the interviewing detective’s urging the suspect to tell the truth so that the detective could work with his information and try to help him was not an impermissible hope of benefit
• finding Ritter inapposite, where, among other reasons, no misrepresentations were made about the victim’s status
• “The detective’s suggestion that [the accused] may not have intended to kill the victim did not amount to a hope of benefit.”
• the “detective “plainly told [the accused] that he could not promise him anything other than that he would relate [the accused’s] version of events”
• officer’s suggestions that defendant had not intended to kill victim did not offer improper hope of benefit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Devega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 56×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 39×
• Flanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-21· cited 33×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 24×
• Stinski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-02· cited 22×
• Peacock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 21×
• State v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-05· cited 19×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 17×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-04· cited 15×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 13×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 11×
• Lane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-23· cited 5×
• Henry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-28· cited 3×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-09-18· cited 2×
• State v. Munoz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-02· cited 1×
• State v. Miguel Munoz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-02
• Merkeith Lane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-23
• Connie Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-23
• Bo Dukes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-09-02

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×
• Payton v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-15· cited 7,618×
• Brown v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-26· cited 4,589×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• New York v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 658×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-22· cited 98×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 83×
• State v. Ritter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 45×
• Carranza v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-19· cited 43×
• Fowler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-05· cited 42×
• Tyler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-11· cited 41×
• Rowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-09· cited 38×
• State v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 37×
• Horton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-09-07· cited 29×
• Daniel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-05· cited 18×
• Wiley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-17· cited 6×