State v. Layton

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing circuit court’s order granting defendant’s motion to dismiss indictment where record was silent as to “whether the prosecution deliberately relied upon hearsay alone when better evidence was readily available for presentation to the grand jury”
• holding it is a “policy expression and not . . . a hard and fast rule” that “hearsay evidence should only be used when direct testimony is unavailable or when it is demonstrably inconvenient to summon witnesses able to testify to facts from personal knowledge” (cleaned up).
• \Hearsay evidence should only be used [in a grand jury proceeding] when direct testimony is unavailable or when it is demonstrably inconvenient to summon witnesses able to testify to facts from personal knowledge.\ (quoting United States v. Umans, 368 F.2d 725, 730 (2d Cir.1966)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ganal
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1996-05-08· cited 124×
• State v. Murphy
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1978-02-21· cited 81×
• State v. Melear
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1981-06-30· cited 79×
• State v. Hoang
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2000-07-10· cited 73×
• State v. O'DANIEL
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1980-09-25· cited 71×
• State v. Bell
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1978-12-26· cited 39×
• State v. Miyazaki
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1982-05-27· cited 32×
• State v. Pulawa
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1980-07-07· cited 28×
• State v. Chong
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1997-11-25· cited 20×
• State v. Nizam
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1989-03-21· cited 15×
• State v. Jenkins
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1980-12-04· cited 14×
• State v. Corpuz
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1984-11-09· cited 11×
• State v. Chong
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1997-04-30· cited 6×
• State v. Griffin
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2011-11-22· cited 2×
• State v. Brown
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2025-09-30

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Costello v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1956-04-01· cited 1,814×
• Harlan v. McGourin
  Supreme Court· 1910-11-28· cited 155×
• United States v. Sam Umans
  Second Circuit· 1966-10-27· cited 106×
• United States v. Philip Arcuri and Alfred John Cimei
  Second Circuit· 1968-12-09· cited 67×
• United States v. Arcuri
  E.D. New York· 1968-03-27· cited 31×
• Mackin v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1885-11-14· cited 29×