State v. Rowell

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that questions about the defendant’s prior convictions could have no other purpose than to prejudice the jury against the defendant
• holding that prejudice resulted from the asking of the question itself, where prosecutor asked witness if she knew whether the Defendant was convicted in another state of same crime for which she was being tried
• The prosecution's inquiry into the defendant's prior conviction \was fraught with such harm to defendant as to be irremediable.\ (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• reversal of conviction required when trial court’s admonition did not cure effect of prosecutor’s question concerning defendant’s prior convictions, which question was framed in improper manner and known by prosecutor to be irrelevant to issues at trial
• damage caused by question held not cured by sustaining of objection
• admonishment to jury insufficient to cure prejudice stemming from question concerning whether witness was aware of defendant’s prior criminal convictions for same offense; question was improper, unrelated to any issue in trial, and asked in a manner calculated to create prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Tollardo
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2012-03-29· cited 506×
• State v. Duffy
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-05-20· cited 205×
• State v. Roybal
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1992-10-14· cited 106×
• State v. Sena
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2020-06-25· cited 98×
• State v. Simonson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1983-09-23· cited 91×
• State v. Day
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1978-02-07· cited 85×
• State v. Reynolds
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1990-11-15· cited 65×
• State v. Vallejos
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1974-01-30· cited 64×
• State v. McFerran
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1969-08-29· cited 63×
• State v. Pace
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 62×
• Enriquez v. Cochran
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1998-07-30· cited 61×
• State v. Gonzales
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2000-08-09· cited 61×
• Gustafson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-12-03· cited 56×
• State v. Lucero
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1999-05-07· cited 48×
• State v. Ross
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1975-05-14· cited 44×
• State v. Garcia
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1968-07-22· cited 44×
• State v. Lara
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1975-07-30· cited 43×
• State v. Newman
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1989-10-17· cited 43×
• State v. Polsky
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1971-02-05· cited 40×
• State v. Robinson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1983-04-26· cited 38×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Wells
  California Supreme Court· 1893-12-22· cited 88×
• State v. Williams
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1966-07-18· cited 71×
• State v. Nelson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1959-03-04· cited 45×
• People v. Ozuna
  California Court of Appeal· 1963-02-21· cited 44×
• State v. Fernandez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1952-09-22· cited 38×
• Gill v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1959-06-01· cited 35×
• State v. Bassett
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1921-01-24· cited 35×
• State v. Cummings
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1953-01-28· cited 34×
• State v. Peke
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1962-03-01· cited 30×
• Miller v. Territory of Oklahoma
  Eighth Circuit· 1906-12-13· cited 18×
• State v. Fournier
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1909-07-16· cited 13×
• Usrey v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1950-06-20· cited 4×
• State v. McKinzie
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1963-03-28· cited 3×
• State v. Snyder
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1923-02-06· cited 1×