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Cannon v. State

Citations

  • 302 Ga. 327
  • 806 S.E.2d 584

How courts have described this case

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  • “A strategic decision about what jury instruction to request will be deemed deficient performance only if it is patently unreasonable.”
  • failure to give requested charge on impeachment by prior conviction of eyewitness harmless error where not highly probable that error contributed to the verdict and trial court properly instructed jury on impeachment in general

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Judges: Benham

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