State v. Wakefield

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial judge's failure to sua sponte recuse himself and disclose his sexual relationship with public defender was a violation of Judicial Code of Conduct
• holding that trial judge’s failure to sua sponte recuse himself and disclose his sexual relationship with public defender was a violation of Judicial Code of Conduct
• explaining that defendants were entitled to new trial, where the presiding judge should have sua sponte recused from each trial as a result of his sexual relationship with the public defender representing either the defendants or their co-defendants
• affirming the reversal of convictions based on structural error when the “undisputed evidence supported the trial court’s factual finding” that the judge presiding over the trials and an attorney for some of the defendants had an “ongoing and intimate relationship” during the trials

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Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Parks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 17×
• Washington v. Hopson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 6×
• Shelton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 6×
• The State v. Shelton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 4×
• Wedel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-08· cited 4×
• The State v. Reynolds
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-13· cited 3×
• Steele v. Steele.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-11· cited 3×
• CROMER v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-25· cited 3×
• Thomas Edward Zerbarini v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Travion Willis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-04-20
• Bertram Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• James Wedel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-08
• State v. Daniel Franklin Parks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24
• Kirk Connells Shelton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24
• Paul Serdula v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-18

Cites

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

• In Re Murchison.
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-16· cited 2,510×
• Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-08· cited 1,119×
• Suggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-14· cited 222×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 108×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 86×
• Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-12-22· cited 51×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 49×
• Baptiste v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-11-18· cited 47×
• Mayor of Savannah v. Batson-Cook Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-29· cited 42×
• Lemming v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-23· cited 24×
• Stephens v. Stephens
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-29· cited 24×
• Hargrove v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-13· cited 21×
• Gude v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 21×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-11-07· cited 19×
• Government Employees Insurance v. Progressive Casualty Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-17· cited 19×
• Blalock v. Waldrup
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1889-12-13· cited 13×
• Jones County v. a MINING GROUP, LLC
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-01· cited 11×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-01-28· cited 9×
• State v. Wofford
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-19· cited 9×
• Kurtz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-01· cited 6×