Benefield v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• counsel’s decision to not request a jury charge on a lesser included offense and to pursue an “all or nothing” defense is a matter of trial strategy and does not amount to ineffective assistance
• decision to pursue “all-or-nothing” defense instead of a defense that would present criminal trespass as an option for the jury is a matter of trial strategy not amounting to ineffective assistance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Duvall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-02· cited 34×
• Ojemuyiwa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-31· cited 28×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-05· cited 11×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-10· cited 11×
• Villegas v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-22· cited 7×
• Tran v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-04· cited 4×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-15· cited 63×
• Reid v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-21· cited 62×
• Blankenship v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-19· cited 55×
• Ellison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-08· cited 41×
• Bogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-13· cited 27×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-14· cited 22×
• Teat v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-23· cited 16×
• Bacon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-24· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-25· cited 11×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-08-02· cited 9×