Sconyers 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 defendant failed to show plain error with regard to the trial court’s pattern charge on prior difficulties, in part, because the defendant “pointed to no controlling precedent holding that a trial court erred in connection with the pattern charge on prior difficulties”
• witnesses’ denial of conversation occurring “relieved the prosecutor of the need to ask about specific statements”
• no plain error in admitting evidence of “prior difficulties” consisting of arguments and physical altercations between the defendant and the victim
• “For an error to be obvious for purposes of plain error review, it must be plain under controlling precedent or in view of the unequivocally clear words of a statute or rule.” (cleaned up)
• “For an error to be obvious for purposes of plain error review, it must be plain under controlling precedent or in view of the unequivocally clear words of a statute or rule.” (punctuation omitted) (quoting Grier v. State, 313 Ga. 236, 242 (3) (b) (869 SE2d 423) (2022))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 10×
• Wood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 2×
• Christopher Fuller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-02-21
• Desmond Legrant Staley, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-15
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15
• Short v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• BOSTIC v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Peavy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-05

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 158×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 129×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 115×
• VIRGER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 62×
• Virger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 59×
• McKibbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 50×
• Nalls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 33×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 33×
• NALLS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 33×
• FITTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 32×
• Naples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 29×
• COLLINS v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 28×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 27×
• HENDERSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 24×
• Rawls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 23×
• DRAUGHN v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-03· cited 23×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 23×
• Chester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-06· cited 22×
• Murdock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 18×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 18×