Earnest v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that given the overwhelming evidence of defendant’s guilt, there was no reasonable probability that the deficiency of trial counsel’s performance, if any, changed the outcome of the trial
• addressing the waiver arising from the failure to raise an issue in the trial court
• evidence of motive is admissible even if it incidentally places the defendant’s character in issue
• OCGA § 17-8-75 requires the trial court to act when counsel makes a timely objection
• OCGA § 17-8-75 requires the trial court to act when counsel makes a timely objection
• strategy of trying to invoke the jury’s sympathy is “within the range of professionally reasonable decisions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).