Walker v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “careless, shoddy and unprofessional investigatory procedures” which resulted in failure to preserve potentially relevant evidence did not amount to bad faith
• no due process violation where officer mistakenly destroyed evidence, believing it to be trash
• careless, shoddy and unprofessional investigatory procedures do not indicate bad faith
• “[T]he handling of the [evidence] may indicate careless, shoddy and unprofessional investigatory procedures, but it does not indicate that the police in bad faith attempted to deny [the defendant] access to evidence that they knew would be exculpatory.”
• “[T]he handling of the [evidence] may indicate careless, shoddy[,] and unprofessional investigatory procedures, but it does not indicate that the police in bad faith attempted to deny [the defendant] access to evidence that they knew would be exculpatory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Ferguson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-09-20· cited 296×
• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 117×
• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Pickens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-14· cited 59×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 59×
• Krause v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-22· cited 51×
• Brannan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 47×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 47×
• Cost v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-12-17· cited 42×
• Milton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-27· cited 36×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-12-28· cited 35×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-12-11· cited 33×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 33×
• State v. Blackwell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-14· cited 27×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-10· cited 23×
• State v. Brooks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-01· cited 20×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 18×
• Sharp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-22· cited 18×
• Wells v. THE STATE
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 17×
• Swanson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-12· cited 16×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• California v. Trombetta
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-11· cited 3,405×
• Arizona v. Youngblood
  Supreme Court· 1989-01-23· cited 3,366×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 169×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-15· cited 35×