Berrien v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• considering a claim of ineffective assistance of plea counsel raised in an amended motion to withdraw guilty pleas that was filed by new counsel
• summarizing the “situation that the United States Supreme Court confronted in Alford . . . [as] the defendant had entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder but accompanied his plea with the statement that he had not shot the victim”
• trial court entitled to credit plea attorney's testimony that he was prepared for trial over defendant's evidence to the contrary
• trial court entitled to credit plea attorney’s testimony that he was prepared for trial over defendant’s evidence to the contrary
• The grant of a motion for out-of-time appeal is the functional equivalent of the entry of a judgment.
• “To the extent the evidence was in conflict at the motion hearing, the credibility of Appellant’s testimony was for the trial court to determine.” (citation modified)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Schoicket v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 29×
• Dos Santos v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 18×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 17×
• Goodwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 3×
• Charlie Branner, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-05-22
• Lamar Bowman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Raven Alexis Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-09-19
• Janorris Spears v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-02-06
• Najya Briann McCallum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-25
• Stephon Clemons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-05-18

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Lafler v. Cooper
  Supreme Court· 2012-03-21· cited 3,280×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 240×
• Gillen v. Bostick
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-29· cited 77×
• Fairclough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 55×
• McGuyton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 25×
• McKiernan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 16×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-07· cited 6×