Woodson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• demonstrating that both the cases prior to and subsequent to Griffin in this State prohibited comments by prosecutors on a defendant’s failure to testify
• demonstrating that both the cases prior to and subsequent to Griffin in this State prohibited comments by prosecutors on a defendant's failure to testify
• reiterating that the penalty can not be death if the weight of the aggravating circumstances is equal to the weight of the mitigating circumstances
• observing that the prosecutor’s remarks during closing were improper when he indicated that the State had kept its promise by providing the jury with evidence and that the defendant had not, demonstrating a sharp contrast that implied guilt from the defendant’s silence
• “Well before Griffin, our cases prohibited [the] practice” of “comment on a defendant’s failure to testify”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Oken v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-06-13· cited 110×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-02-16· cited 84×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-04-11· cited 53×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-20· cited 21×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-07-27· cited 14×
• Molina v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-12-23· cited 10×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-05-12· cited 3×
• Simpson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-25· cited 2×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Bourjaily v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 2,639×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• Bowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-09-04· cited 92×
• Veney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1968-10-15· cited 71×
• Bowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-09· cited 56×
• Eley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-09-16· cited 53×
• Maguire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1878-02-20· cited 52×
• Bedford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-03-24· cited 49×
• Bowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-05-07· cited 45×
• Dufour v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1986-10-14· cited 41×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-05-14· cited 26×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-10-29· cited 21×
• Sallie v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-02-14· cited 11×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-29· cited 10×
• State v. Scriver
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1978-10-10· cited 9×
• Robertson v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1957-02-07· cited 8×
• Fischer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1962-10-03· cited 5×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1980-12-12· cited 4×