Brewer 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 that any error in excluding evidence of victim’s prior crimes was harmless given that multiple witnesses undermined defendant’s self-defense claim
• declining curative instruction in order to avoid further attention to defendant’s criminal history was reasonable trial strategy
• defendant waived right to complain that trial court denied his motion for a mistrial after his character allegedly had been placed into evidence because he refused the trial court’s offer of curative instructions
• “Given that [the defendant] declined the court’s offer to give a curative instruction with regard to the statement, he cannot now complain about its refusal to declare a mistrial. Accordingly, [the defendant] has waived his right to complain about the trial court’s decision.”
• “Given that [the defendant] declined the court’s offer to give a curative instruction with regard to the statement, . . . [he] has waived his right to complain about the trial court’s [refusal to grant his motion for mistrial].” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shawn Daniel Meintz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-01-30· cited 33×
• Coley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-15· cited 24×
• Rashad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 21×
• STEPHENS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 18×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 16×
• Dobbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 8×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 4×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 3×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-19· cited 2×
• Tedric Leslie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-05-04
• Lester Owensby Pauley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-05-04
• Robert Dipietro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-10
• Shay Patrick Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-30
• Emery Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18
• Antonio Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-10-25

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 227×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 92×
• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 62×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-21· cited 33×
• Bunnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 31×
• Pickren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 27×
• Kitchens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-31· cited 18×
• Rucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 9×