State v. Gibson

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 jury was permitted to find the element of premeditation beyond a reasonable doubt based on “a sufficient lapse of time” between the beating and strangulation of victim
• evidence of a brief lapse of time between blunt force blows to the head and later strangulation was sufficient to show premeditation
• evidence of a brief lapse of time between blunt force blows to the head and later strangulation was sufficient to show premeditation
• lapse of unspecified amount of time between beating and ligature strangulation sufficient to permit a jury finding of premeditation
• evidence that there was a sufficient lapse of time between beating and strangling the victim was sufficient to support a finding of premeditation
• evidence sufficient to establish premeditation where victim suffered three separate blunt force skull injuries before being strangled to death by rope or cord

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Pirtle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 563×
• State v. Gentry
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-01-25· cited 498×
• State v. Finch
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-05-06· cited 412×
• Dupree v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-01-11· cited 23×
• State of Washington v. Kelly Eugene Small
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2017-11-02

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Franks v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-26· cited 8,679×
• State v. Seagull
  Washington Supreme Court· 1981-07-30· cited 263×
• State v. Robtoy
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-11-10· cited 161×
• State v. Bingham
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-05-15· cited 82×
• State v. Luoma
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-01-18· cited 53×
• State v. Sweet
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1979-04-16· cited 16×
• State v. Anderson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-03-26· cited 9×