Raines v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that even if a defendant is not indigent, “it is incumbent upon the trial court to further determine on the record whether [the defendant] acted diligently in attempting to obtain an attorney and whether the absence of an attorney was attributable to reasons beyond his control”
• reversal required where, despite “substantial” evidence of guilt, transcript “reflects Raines’ inexperience in legal matters”
• reversal required where, despite \substantial\ evidence of guilt, transcript \reflects Raines' inexperience in legal matters\
• reversal required where, even though “substantial” evidence of guilt existed, transcript “reflects [defendant’s] inexperience in legal matters”
• invalid waiver where court failed to make independent inquiry into defendant’s understanding of the specific dangers he faced from proceeding pro se
• The county’s indigent defense office determined that the defendant was not indigent, and the trial court adopted that finding.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 34×
• Middleton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-29· cited 22×
• Jones v. Walker
  Eleventh Circuit· 2007-08-22· cited 18×
• MARTIN-ARGAW v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-17· cited 17×
• Humphries v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-13· cited 10×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 8×
• Manning v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-11· cited 8×
• 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×
• Burns v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-11· cited 3×
• Merritt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-11· cited 2×
• John Longo v. City of Dunwoody
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• Ronald Coy Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Tamarat Martin-Argaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-17
• Jermaine Porter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-19

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hamilton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-01· cited 33×
• Prater v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-07· cited 29×
• Hasty v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-09· cited 19×
• Flanagan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-09-27· cited 17×
• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-08-09· cited 15×
• McDowell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-18· cited 11×
• Coppolla v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-16· cited 8×
• McQueen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-10-03· cited 8×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-05· cited 7×
• Heard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-23· cited 5×