State v. Cota

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that witness’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment was not reversible error
• noting that witness's invocation of the Fifth Amendment was not reversible error
• prosecutor’s comment in closing argument on key witness’s refusal to testify, although undesirable and improper, was not reversible error
• proper for State to call co-defendant to invoke before the jury when not calling would “leave[] an obvious step out of its argument”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hopkinson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1981-07-02· cited 259×
• State v. McDaniel
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-04-28· cited 135×
• State v. Gretzler
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-04-21· cited 92×
• State v. Corrales
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 49×
• State v. Settle
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1975-01-17· cited 38×
• State v. O'BRIEN
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1979-09-17· cited 36×
• State v. Caldwell
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-12-21· cited 22×
• State v. McElyea
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-10-01· cited 20×
• State v. Eubanks
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-05-26· cited 20×
• Foss v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1976-03-25· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1989-07-03· cited 14×
• Frank E. Cota v. Frank A. Eyman, Warden, Arizona State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 1972-01-17· cited 12×
• Flagler v. Derickson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-11-23· cited 5×
• State v. Ortiz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1976-02-25· cited 4×
• State v. Ortiz
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1975-06-26· cited 1×
• Cota v. Arizona
  D. Arizona· 1969-10-09