Prater v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• judgment reversed because defendant not told the nature of the charges, the range of allowable punishment, and possible defenses
• although evidence against defendant was “ample,” error was harmful because record showed defendant was “confused, disorganized, and ill-equipped for handling the case”
• defendant “confused, disorganized, and ill-equipped for handling the case” and inadequately warned beforehand of these dangers
• judgment reversed because defendant not told the nature of the charges, the range of allowable punishment, and possible defenses
• harmful error where defendant was “confused, disorganized, and ill-equipped for handling the case” and was “inadequately warned beforehand” of dangers of proceeding pro se
• although evidence was ample, error not harmless where defendant was “confused, disorganized, and ill-equipped for handling the case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Adkins
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1996-07-30· cited 68×
• Wayne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-02· cited 67×
• Middleton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-29· cited 22×
• Horne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-25· cited 20×
• Raines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-13· cited 17×
• MARTIN-ARGAW v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-17· cited 17×
• Simpson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-14· cited 16×
• McDaniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-20· cited 14×
• In the Interest of Z. K.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-19· cited 13×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-25· cited 10×
• Humphries v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-13· cited 10×
• Sawyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-17· cited 10×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-18· cited 8×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-05· cited 7×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-26· cited 6×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 5×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-28· cited 4×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-06· cited 3×
• Pardon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-25· cited 1×
• In Re Zk
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-19

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Clarke v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-24· cited 152×
• Kirkland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-12-03· cited 32×
• Hasty v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-09· cited 19×
• Keith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-10-13· cited 17×
• McCook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-03-13· cited 14×
• May v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-05-10· cited 7×