State v. Murphy

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where the circuit court dismissed the habitual-offender charges against the defendant over the state’s objection, the court usurped the prosecutor’s constitutional duties and violated the separation-of-powers doctrine
• circuit court cannot dismiss habitual offender charges when sentencing defendant as a habitual offender is mandatory
• case remanded for resentencing where trial judge dismissed prior felony charges, on its own motion and over state’s objection, for purposes of sentencing
• choice of which charges to file against accused is matter entirely within prosecutor’s discretion
• the prosecutor has the discretion to determine which charges to file
• the prosecutor has the discretion to determine which charges to file

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bunch v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-05-10· cited 73×
• Neely v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-06-13· cited 52×
• State v. Joslin
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-01-12· cited 27×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2018-05-24· cited 27×
• Foster v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2008-02-07· cited 20×
• State v. Brummett
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-10-10· cited 18×
• State v. Vasquez-Aerreola
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-03-17· cited 17×
• Bagwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-09-13· cited 17×
• Cantrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2009-10-01· cited 17×
• State v. Britt
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-12-07· cited 15×
• Bolin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2015-04-09· cited 15×
• State v. Singleton
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-03-30· cited 14×
• State v. Knight
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-10-03· cited 14×
• State v. Rodriques
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-01-30· cited 13×
• State v. D.S.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2011-02-09· cited 12×
• State v. Dennis
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-09-26· cited 9×
• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2016-06-30· cited 5×
• Renfro v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-01-29· cited 5×
• State v. Pulaski County Circuit Court Steven Marshall
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-03-28· cited 3×
• Arkansas Department of Commerce, Division of Workforce Services v. Legal Aid of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2022-06-09· cited 1×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-01-21· cited 46×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-09-28· cited 34×
• Hart v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-01-29· cited 34×
• State v. Townsend
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-10-18· cited 34×
• State v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-02-08· cited 26×
• Mathis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1980-01-09· cited 19×
• State v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-02-05· cited 10×
• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-07-15· cited 8×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1983-11-16· cited 7×
• Woodson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-04-02· cited 7×
• Arkansas Fire & Police Pension Review Board v. Stephens
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-06-08· cited 7×
• McKillion v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-09-23· cited 6×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-06-01· cited 3×