268 Ga. App. 129 - Botelho v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2009
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Mallory v. State · Clark v. State · Klinect v. State · Domingues v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The 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“[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 defendant and his present counsel disagree with the decisions made by trial counsel does not require a finding that defendant’s original representation was inadequate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Questions as to the reasonableness of hypotheses are generally to be decided by the jury which heard the evidence and where the jury is authorized to find that the evidence, though circumstantial, was sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of guilt, that finding will not be disturbed unless the verdict of guilty is insupportable as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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