Cheeks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding improper the State’s argument in closing, “ “You didn’t do anything wrong? Go down and talk to the police. Tell them what happened.’ ”
• trial counsel ineffective in failing to object to state’s egregious and repeated questions and comments on defendant’s silence as evidence of guilt
• trial counsel provided deficient performance when she failed to object to extensive references to the defendant's silence and affirmatively testified that the failure to object was due to \nerves\ and not because of any strategic reason
• trial counsel provided deficient performance when she failed to object to extensive references to the defendant’s silence and affirmatively testified that the failure to object was due to “nerves” and not because of any strategic reason

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 38×
• Dorsey v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-10· cited 6×
• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 6×
• Dumas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-18· cited 2×
• Gregory Dumas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-18
• Sheila Bell Hawkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 41×
• Ruiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 38×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 35×
• Greene v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-30· cited 19×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-27· cited 14×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-08-28· cited 10×
• Arellano v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-07· cited 8×
• State v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19· cited 4×