255 Ga. App. 784 - Hazelrigs v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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27 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Whether an attorney’s trial tactics are reasonable “is a question of law,” not fact. The test for reasonable attorney performance has nothing to do with what the best lawyers would have done. Nor is the test even what most good lawyers would have done. We ask only whether some reasonable lawyer at the trial could have acted, in the circumstances, as defense counsel acted at trial. . . . We are not interested in grading lawyers’ performances; we are interested in whether the adversarial process at trial, in fact, worked adequately.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 290 Ga. App. 829 - Williams v. State

2. “[effectiveness is not judged by hindsight or by the result. Although another lawyer may have conducted the defense in a different manner and taken another course of action, the fact that [appellant] and his present counsel disagree with the decisions made by trial counsel does not require a finding that [Williams’s] original representation was inadequate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 319 Ga. App. 888 - Williams v. State

3. “The fact that [Tyler] and present counsel now disagree with the difficult decisions regarding trial tactics and strategy made by trial counsel does not require a finding that [Tyler] received representation amounting to ineffective assistance of counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tyler v. State