265 Ga. App. 421 - Morton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 2008
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wilson v. State · Domingues v. State · Luallen v. State · 263 Ga. App. 453 - Pippins v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he decisions on which witnesses to call, whether and how to conduct cross-examination, which jurors to accept or strike, what trial motions should be made, and all other strategic and tactical decisions are the exclusive province of counsel after consultation with the client. Trial counsel’s strategic decisions made after thorough investigation are virtually unchallengeable. They provide no grounds for reversal unless such tactical decisions are so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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