Selman 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 expert testimony regarding the defendant's paranoia and fear of the victim was inadmissible to explain why he killed the victim, when the defendant had not raised an insanity or mental-illness defense
• holding that expert testimony regarding the defendant’s paranoia and fear of the victim was inadmissible to explain why he killed the victim, when the defendant had not raised an insanity or mental illness defense
• “in homicides where justification is raised as a defense ... that justification is based upon the fears of a reasonable person, not upon the reasonable fears of the defendant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• 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×
• Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-04· cited 57×
• Pennie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 50×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 44×
• Paul v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 40×
• Weems v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-02· cited 29×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-04-22· cited 23×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-24· cited 22×
• Lewandowski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-14· cited 20×
• Lott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-30· cited 17×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-07-29· cited 14×
• Ramsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-31· cited 10×
• Pickle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-07-14· cited 10×
• Adame v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-18· cited 8×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-06· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-01· cited 3×
• Nguyen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-01· cited 1×
• Jesse Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-04

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-09-30· cited 53×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-05-06· cited 30×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 27×
• Motes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-07-13· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-29· cited 18×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-02-27· cited 10×