Bennett v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the PCR court erred in finding appellate counsel ineffective for failing to brief an issue because even if appellate counsel’s performance was deficient, such performance did not prejudice the petitioner
• stating because the trial court had already ruled on an issue, trial counsel did not need to renew objection
• finding it unnecessary for trial counsel to renew his objection to continuing objectionable testimony when the circuit court had already ruled on the issue
• even where an Anders brief is filed, when analyzing a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, this Court applies the Strickland test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2013-07-24· cited 10×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-03-29· cited 9×
• State v. Trapp
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2017-05-24· cited 3×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2016-02-10· cited 2×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-02-08

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Anders v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 87,848×
• Smith v. Robbins
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 3,510×
• Evitts v. Lucey
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-18· cited 3,068×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-12-04· cited 215×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-08-27· cited 103×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-01-27· cited 82×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-05-01· cited 34×
• Southerland v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-12-13· cited 24×