State v. Gleaton

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant not charged with lack of due diligence for failure to investigate crime scene prior to indictment
• where both parties prevented from obtaining forensic and other evidence, and faced with practical impossibility of locating witnesses whose residences were in the condemned apartment complex where crimes occurred
• not fatal error where trial court concluded “as a practical matter a defendant on bond is highly unlikely to come forward and demand an indictment be returned against him or that the case be brought before a court for any reason”
• not fatal error where trial court concluded “as a practical matter a defendant on bond is highly unlikely to come forward and demand an indictment be returned against him or that the case be brought before a court for any reason”
• delay approaching four years properly weighed against State

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Pickett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 103×
• State v. Buckner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 57×
• Shelton R. Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-10· cited 30×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-11· cited 20×
• State v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-05· cited 19×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-20· cited 16×
• Wilkie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 16×
• Goffaux v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-12-21· cited 10×
• State v. Thaxton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-14· cited 7×
• State v. Hartsfield
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-20
• State v. Eugene Hartsfield
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-20

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• United States v. Marion
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 3,756×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 168×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 78×
• Haisman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-04· cited 75×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-16· cited 58×
• State v. Redding
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 52×
• Wooten v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 44×
• Layman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 43×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-21· cited 31×
• Bowling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 29×
• State v. Madden
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-11-30· cited 21×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-20· cited 14×
• State v. Lattimore
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 14×
• State v. Hight
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-10-22· cited 12×
• State v. Stallworth
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-08-22· cited 12×