309 Ga. App. 241 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Timberlake v. State · Benham v. State · 258 Ga. App. 232 - Rose v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The record in this case, therefore, does not support a conclusion that [Hill’s] attorney misunderstood the law, as [trial counsel] apparently did in Benham [v. State, 277 Ga. 516, 517-518 ( 591 SE2d 824 ) (2004)]. We are left, therefore, with the presumption that trial counsel’s performance fell “within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance.” [Cit.] “Where(, as here,) trial counsel does not testify at the motion for new trial hearing about the subject, it is extremely difficult to overcome this presumption.” [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. State
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