Butler v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “In its role as factfinder, the trial court was authorized to believe the testimony of trial counsel and reject any conflicting testimony from [defendant].”
• no clear error in trial court’s finding of no deficient performance where trial 5 counsel testified that he communicated plea offers and consequences of going to trial with defendant despite defendant’s conflicting testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-15· cited 18×
• Hillsman v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-05· cited 5×
• Broom v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-13
• Sherry Anita Bailey-Daniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-22
• John L. Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-15

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 46×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-29· cited 26×
• Jividen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-22· cited 21×
• Baskin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-05· cited 15×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-24· cited 9×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-10· cited 6×
• Trammell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-08-18· cited 4×