Scott v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting requisite proof when state’s case for revoking probation is based upon circumstantial evidence of drug possession
• noting requisite proof when state’s case for revoking probation is based upon circumstantial evidence of drug possession
• reversing probation revocation where defendant was a passenger in a vehicle that belonged to the driver and in which drugs were found in the center console
• “to prove constructive possession, the State was required to show some connection between [the probationer] and the drugs other than spatial proximity”
• “to prove constructive possession, the State was required to show some connection between [the probationer] and the drugs other than spatial proximity”
• trial court erred in finding that defendant violated his probation by committing a new crime of drug possession where State offered no evidence linking defendant to drugs found in car in which he was a passenger

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-12-29· cited 16×
• Holiman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-30· cited 11×
• Marks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-16· cited 7×
• Boatner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-19· cited 5×
• Strozier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-31· cited 4×
• Ponder v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-04-19· cited 4×
• KLICKA v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-04-13· cited 3×
• Lee Barfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-02-18
• Joseph Patrick Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-17
• Anthony Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Orr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-18
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-16
• Donald Orr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-18
• James White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-16

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 52×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-03· cited 25×
• Kier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-25· cited 14×
• Mullens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-29· cited 12×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-08· cited 12×
• Gonzales v. THE STATE
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-18· cited 3×