Chapel v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “both the conflict of interest and the appearance of impropriety presented by the circumstances . . . render[ed] [attorney’s] representation of [client] impermissible”
• attorney disqualified in capital case due to conflict of interest over his representation of county and its officials in unrelated legal matters
• attorney disqualified in capital case due to conflict of interest over his representation of county and its officials in unrelated legal matters
• attorney disqualified in capital case due to conflict of interest and appearance of impropriety
• “The amount of time and effort expended by an attorney on behalf of a criminal defendant are weighty considerations in determining whether that attorney should be appointed to represent the defendant.”
• “Furthermore, this court has held that when faced with a ‘serious potential for a post-trial claim of ineffectiveness’ a trial court properly refused to allow the defendant to be represented by counsel of his choice.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 59×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 49×
• Britt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-21· cited 40×
• Sallie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 25×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 11×
• Dill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 11×
• FORD v. TATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-31· cited 9×
• Whitworth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-29· cited 8×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-10· cited 7×
• Laye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-15· cited 7×
• State v. Redd
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-03· cited 3×
• State v. Reddick
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-03· cited 1×
• Waddell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-17· cited 1×
• State v. ROMAN (Nine Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lynd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-27· cited 75×
• Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital of Emory University v. Yerby
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-30· cited 39×
• Troup County Electric Membership Corp. v. Georgia Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-06-28· cited 27×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-05-10· cited 20×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-06-21· cited 16×