State v. Godfrey

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming conviction where “jurors were sworn prior to their deliberations ” (emphasis added)
• recalling jurors to be sworn “within minutes” of starting deliberation not reversible error
• characterizing the jurors’ oath as “an essential element of the constitutional guarantee to a trial by an ‘impartial jury’” and suggesting that trial to a never-sworn jury would warrant reversal
• affirming conviction where \jurors were sworn prior to their deliberations\ (emphasis added)
• recalling jurors to be sworn \within minutes\ of starting deliberation not reversible error
• “[T]he juror’s oath is an essential element of the constitutional guarantee to a trial by an ‘impartial’ jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Cain
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2015-07-23· cited 149×
• People v. Moon
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2022-04-07· cited 141×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-05-11· cited 35×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-09-11· cited 27×
• State v. Arellano
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-08-14· cited 24×
• People v. Morales
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1991-05-31· cited 23×
• State v. Apodaca
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1987-02-26· cited 21×
• State v. Vogh
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2002-02-20· cited 20×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-10-03· cited 19×
• State v. Roberge
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-08-24· cited 16×
• Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-03-09· cited 13×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-08· cited 7×
• People v. Nelson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-05-18· cited 5×
• In re MH 2006-002044
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2007-11-06· cited 4×
• State v. Arellano
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1997-05-01· cited 3×
• Fedd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-11· cited 2×
• Tereka Reon Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-03-09

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Smith
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1976-07-19· cited 43×
• People v. Pribble
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1976-11-09· cited 34×
• United States v. Arvil Sutton Hopkins
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-04-27· cited 27×
• State v. Kelly
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 26×
• Hollis v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1981-04-20· cited 22×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1981-06-16· cited 10×
• Stark v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1923-10-29· cited 9×
• Padilla v. SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA, ETC.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1982-09-14· cited 5×
• State v. Gilbert
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1970-04-01· cited 5×