State v. McDonald

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence that “may well be exculpatory in the limited sense that it may be the kind of evidence skilled counsel might develop” does not necessarily “tend to negate [a defendant’s] guilt in its own right”
• defining exculpatory evidence as evidence that “tends, in and of itself, to negate the defendant’s guilt”
• “In the present case, the utterance ... was couched as a question but it was phrased in such a manner as to make it an implicit assertion of the fact.”
• no unanimity required regarding whether the defendant personally committed the murder or, instead, aided or abetted another person's commission of the murder
• \[C]onjecture based on the relative strength of competing theories of guilt can be no substitute for certainty when the double jeopardy clause is implicated. Any ambiguity must be resolved in favor of the accused.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

43 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-12-21· cited 178×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-06· cited 106×
• Easlick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2004-05-03· cited 91×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-05-24· cited 89×
• People v. James
  New York Court of Appeals· 1999-07-01· cited 66×
• Peters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2001-03-09· cited 32×
• Haag v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2005-07-22· cited 26×
• Wyatt v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1999-05-28· cited 25×
• Dailey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2003-03-14· cited 21×
• Pease v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2002-09-27· cited 20×
• Blank v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2000-05-19· cited 17×
• Hilbish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-03-10· cited 14×
• Hurd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2005-02-11· cited 14×
• Cathey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2002-12-13· cited 14×
• Noy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2003-11-14· cited 13×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2002-10-17· cited 13×
• McGill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2001-02-09· cited 13×
• Mustafoski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-02-27· cited 12×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-07-21· cited 12×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-01-30· cited 11×

Cites

63 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Richardson v. Marsh
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 2,670×
• Whitton v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-12-23· cited 222×
• Frink v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-06-29· cited 121×
• Nathan Mann v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1963-10-10· cited 120×
• Hawley v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-07-25· cited 97×
• Des Jardins v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-06-11· cited 94×
• People v. Teale
  California Supreme Court· 1969-02-25· cited 82×
• Williams v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-05-29· cited 64×
• Tookak v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-07-30· cited 61×
• United States v. Ingo Grill
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-08-28· cited 56×
• Andrew Pitts v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1959-03-12· cited 52×
• Bush v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1964-12-28· cited 47×
• Buchanan v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-03-14· cited 47×
• Salinas v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1962-06-30· cited 45×
• Putnam v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 45×
• Allen v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1966-11-28· cited 44×
• Whiteaker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-03-22· cited 42×
• Armstrong v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-11-03· cited 39×