Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reiterating that, for the admission of co-defendant's statements to constitute a Bruton violation, the statements standing alone must clearly inculpate the defendant
• reiterating that, for the admission of co-defendant’s statements to constitute a Bruton violation, the statements standing alone must clearly inculpate the defendant
• “the mere fact that there was no written waiver of Miranda rights or other written record of such waiver did not render his statement inadmissible”
• “[i]n the absence of contrary evidence, defense counsel’s actions are presumed to be part of trial strategy’
• “For the admission of a co-defendant’s statements to constitute a Bruton violation the statements standing alone must clearly inculpate the defendant.”
• no Bruton violation when co-defendant’s statement, that Thomas had bought gun later determined to be murder weapon, did not clearly inculpate defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 80×
• Harwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 70×
• Grissom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 57×
• McClarity v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-24· cited 57×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 56×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 47×
• Metz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 45×
• Burgess v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-11-23· cited 42×
• Givens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 42×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 38×
• Daniel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-18· cited 33×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 29×
• Boone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 24×
• Sutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-16· cited 24×
• Nelms v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 23×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 23×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-06· cited 23×
• Flanigan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 20×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 19×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 19×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 261×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 86×
• Lackey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-16· cited 80×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-13· cited 79×
• Philmore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 76×
• Ladson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-13· cited 70×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-06-11· cited 69×
• Dukes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-05-30· cited 68×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 67×
• McIntyre v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-06· cited 61×
• Brewer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-10-20· cited 58×
• Fargason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-11· cited 48×
• Flynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-02-13· cited 48×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 47×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-22· cited 44×