Simmons 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 a trial judge’s prevention of an irrelevant line of questioning regarding the intention of a potential witness to invoke her Fifth Amendment privilege was correct
• observing that if an issue is raised and argued in appellant's opening brief, it is adequately raised on appeal in the Court of Special Appeals
• “Managing the scope of cross-examination is a matter that falls within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
• “It is the duty of the trial judge to determine whether the witness can properly assert the privilege against self-incrimination and whether the witness’s silence is justified.”
• discussing applicability of exception adopted in Gray

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Simms
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-07-15· cited 75×
• Stone v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-02-13· cited 29×
• Muhammad v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-11-05· cited 29×
• Abrams v. Lamone
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-26· cited 20×
• Wagner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-04· cited 13×
• State v. Whitt
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-04-06· cited 11×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-05-07· cited 7×
• Furda v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-07-06· cited 4×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-10· cited 4×
• Dickson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-10-28· cited 2×
• Jung Chul Park v. Cangen Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-10-27· cited 2×
• Thurman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-05-02· cited 2×
• Trembow v. Schonfeld
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-06-08· cited 1×
• Mines v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-11-27· cited 1×
• Rainey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-09-28
• Westley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-07-02
• Calloway v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2023-06-28
• Corman Marine Const. v. McGeady
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-08-01
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-11-06
• Joiner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-05-30

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hoffman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-05-28· cited 1,874×
• Minnesota v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 1,569×
• Rogers v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-04-16· cited 898×
• Mason v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1917-06-04· cited 229×
• Ex parte Irvine
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Ohio· 1896-04-07· cited 106×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-10-05· cited 70×
• Langworthy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-03-28· cited 58×
• Choi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-07-21· cited 57×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-05-10· cited 55×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-04-11· cited 53×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-06-20· cited 49×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-07-01· cited 45×
• Bhagwat v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-05-16· cited 24×