Swanson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• no bad faith where potentially exculpatory evidence was destroyed pursuant to standardized retention and destruction guidelines
• the defendant's due process claim failed because there was \no evidence to show 'bad faith' on the part of law enforcement which resulted in the destruction of [the defendant's] blood sample\
• the defendant’s due process claim failed because there was “no evidence to show ‘bad faith’ on the part of law enforcement which resulted in the destruction of [the defendant’s] blood sample”
• full concurrence in Division 1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Doyal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-07· cited 14×
• State v. Brawner
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-13· cited 10×
• Shoemake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-18· cited 7×
• State v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 7×
• State v. McNeil
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-23· cited 5×
• State v. Brady
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 2×
• Harrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-23· cited 1×
• State v. Kenneth Nixon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-30
• Ramey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-27
• Timothy Joel Cross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-21
• Gabriel O. Ceballos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-05-14
• William Gerald Hamrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-12-04

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Arizona v. Youngblood
  Supreme Court· 1989-01-23· cited 3,366×
• Henry Willis, III v. Walter B. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-11-17· cited 110×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-08· cited 81×
• Perano v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-01· cited 79×
• Travaglia v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-18· cited 51×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-28· cited 48×
• Milton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-27· cited 36×
• Kirkland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-14· cited 34×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-02-15· cited 31×
• State v. Blackwell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-14· cited 27×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-27· cited 26×
• Lynott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-06· cited 22×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 22×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-04-14· cited 16×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-10-07· cited 13×
• Tidwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-12-08· cited 12×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-26· cited 10×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-28· cited 9×
• Carver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-07-15· cited 8×
• Floyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-02· cited 8×