Sessums v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• waiver of jury trial effective where written waiver signed by defendant, and his counsel in open court in defendant's presence again announces waiver
• a jury may be waived in a criminal trial by the consent of both parties expressed in open court by the defendant and the defendant's counsel
• waiver of jury trial effective where written and signed by defendant, and his counsel again announced waiver in defendant's presence in open court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jells
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1990-08-08· cited 222×
• Tucker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-06-22· cited 41×
• Dumas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-13· cited 33×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-06-27· cited 11×
• Rodriguez-Acosta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-03-28· cited 8×
• Carter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-08· cited 7×
• Otis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-02-15· cited 4×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-28· cited 4×
• Marine v. State
  Florida Circuit Courts· 1982-05-19
• State v. Thorup
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-07-17

Cites

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

• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• Baldwin v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 789×
• Walker v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-05-26· cited 45×
• Dortch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-05-01· cited 31×
• Spector v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-01-22· cited 27×
• Quartz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-02-15· cited 23×
• People v. Rynberk
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-12-24· cited 22×
• Tosta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-09-27· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Candia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-20· cited 20×
• Powers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-05-08· cited 15×
• People v. Spain
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-12-12· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Baxter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-12-12· cited 14×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-04-07· cited 12×
• Russell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-02-01· cited 11×
• Viggiani v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-11-12· cited 11×
• Durcan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-04-01· cited 9×
• Molfetas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-12-09· cited 9×
• Kinser v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-02-26· cited 9×
• People v. Blackmon
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1980-02-20· cited 9×
• State Ex Rel. Gerstein v. Baker
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-11-09· cited 7×