Solomon v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that the procedural issues of joinder and severance are not the same as the evidentiary issue of \other crimes\ evidence and they call for different analyses
• the doctrine of “mutual admissibility” concerns whether “evidence of each crime would be admissible in a trial for the other”
• “[Pjrejudice at a joint trial does not consist of damage from evidence that would have been admissible in any event even had the trials of the defendants or charges been severed.”
• “we have found no Maryland decision where, once the initial hurdle of mutual admissibility has been cleared, a decision by a trial judge to order a trial joinder has ever been held to be an abuse of discretion”
• “The first groundbreaking step taken by the McKnight decision was to hold that, in a jury trial at least, severance was absolutely mandated, as a matter of law, when the evidence with respect to the separate charges (or, presumably, with respect to separate defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-05-08· cited 89×
• State v. Cutro
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-08-15· cited 43×
• Fisher v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-08· cited 40×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-01-27· cited 35×
• Emory v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-09-29· cited 34×
• Oesby v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-01-04· cited 28×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-09-04· cited 22×
• Lewin Realty III, Inc. v. Brooks
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-04-26· cited 18×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-07-07· cited 12×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-10· cited 10×
• Bussie v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-05-01· cited 10×
• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-03-08· cited 9×
• Garcia-Perlera v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-02-02· cited 6×
• State v. Hines
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-11-10· cited 6×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-07-01· cited 5×
• Mobley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-09-03· cited 5×
• Burris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-06-28· cited 5×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-05-27· cited 3×
• Hemming v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-06-26· cited 3×
• Cortez v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-12-18· cited 2×