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← 202 Ga. App. 608 - Whitner v. State

202 Ga. App. 608 - Whitner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
January 2008
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Caldwell v. State · 198 Ga. App. 503 - Harris v. State · French v. State · 198 Ga. App. 300 - Whitner v. State

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “[tjhere are two components to a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel. “First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient. Second, the defendant must show that the defense was prejudiced by the deficient performance. Both components must be shown before we can find that the conviction resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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