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 defense counsel’s improper, prejudicial comment in opening statement of murder prosecution, that defendant had offered to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence, rendered declaration of mistrial a manifest necessity
• holding that manifest necessity for a mistrial was established when the trial court found that prejudice to the State’s ability to have a fair trial was clear and that the motion for a mistrial was based on that prejudice
• upholding grant of mistrial based on defense counsel’s disclosure during opening statement that the defendant had offered to take a lie detector test
• upholding grant of mistrial based on defense counsel's disclosure during opening statement that the defendant had offered to take a lie detector test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-12-18· cited 16×
• Sneed v. Burress
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-10-20· cited 12×
• Quinones v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-11-05· cited 5×
• Douglas Libert v. Joseph Kuhl, Magistrate
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-09-18

Cites

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

• Arizona v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-21· cited 2,314×
• Renico v. Lett
  Supreme Court· 2010-05-03· cited 1,940×
• Wilhelm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-26· cited 259×
• State v. Hawkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-04-13· cited 132×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-03-18· cited 85×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-08-10· cited 82×
• Miles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-09-18· cited 70×
• United States v. John M. Gantley
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-03-30· cited 64×
• Guesfeird v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-24· cited 53×
• Kosmas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-07-25· cited 51×
• Watters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-02· cited 51×
• Braxton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-11-06· cited 43×
• Salvagno v. Frew
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-06-10· cited 38×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-06-10· cited 35×
• State v. Woodson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-05-17· cited 31×
• Hubbard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-10-17· cited 26×
• Phelps v. Sovran Bank
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-05· cited 25×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-02-09· cited 21×
• Moreland v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-09-26· cited 20×
• Mansfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-09-30· cited 10×