State v. Martinez

How courts have described this case

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

• holding evidence that defendant closed front door on police while there were drugs in plain sight inside the apartment was sufficient to allow jury to infer that defendant had requisite intent to hinder prosecution of a drug offense
• rejecting contention that defendant’s action of closing door on police was inadvertent and not to hinder execution of search warrant
• “Legal principles conveyed to the jury . . . should neither be argumentative nor pejorative; such principles should be neutral and written in plain English so they do not confuse the jury.”
• “mere presence” instruction not warranted in obstruction of justice case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Dawley
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2001-11-15· cited 10×
• State v. Foster
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-11-07· cited 1×
• State of Arizona v. Shawn De Nean Edmisten
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-03-23

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Atwood
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1992-07-10· cited 361×
• State v. Amaya-Ruiz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1990-12-14· cited 276×
• State v. Thomas
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-11-06· cited 116×
• State v. Axley
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-05-10· cited 89×
• State v. Dumaine
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-11-07· cited 81×
• United States v. Stephen A. Pearson and John Petracelli
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-11-15· cited 74×
• Szoke v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-13· cited 74×
• State v. McVay
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-12-04· cited 71×
• State v. Hernandez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1991-08-22· cited 69×
• State v. Malloy
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-12-18· cited 68×
• State v. Bruggeman
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1989-03-28· cited 43×
• Arizona Corp. Commission v. Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1951-03-12· cited 27×
• State v. Hickle
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-06-19· cited 24×
• State v. Canedo
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-03-11· cited 22×
• Petefish v. Dawe
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-10-06· cited 19×
• State v. Starr
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1978-05-25· cited 15×
• State v. Neil
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1967-06-08· cited 15×
• Petefish by and Through Clancy v. Dawe
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-10-06· cited 9×
• State v. Johnson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1971-01-14· cited 6×
• State v. Carbajal
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-03-05· cited 3×