Fennell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where “the prosecutor cut off the witness’s response and the trial court also instructed the witness not to talk about” the matter
• trial counsel’s failure to request a mistrial based on improper comments made by the prosecutor in closing argument was a matter of trial strategy and did not amount to ineffective assistance
• sustained objection to improper argument of counsel cannot serve as the basis for reversal unless it is contemporaneous with a denied motion for mistrial, denied request to strike, or denied request for curative instructions
• sustained 5 objection to improper argument of counsel cannot serve as the basis for reversal unless it is contemporaneous with a denied motion for mistrial, denied request to strike, or denied request for curative instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 124×
• DAMEROW v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-06· cited 38×
• Boatright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-08· cited 37×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 16×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-11· cited 16×
• Walley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-23· cited 13×
• Pineda v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 8×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-04· cited 7×
• Stubbs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-04-11· cited 5×
• Paul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-06· cited 5×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-13· cited 3×
• Jamall E. Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-13
• Jernerick Bernard Paul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-06

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Lajara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-18· cited 126×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-24· cited 60×
• Ponder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-01· cited 42×
• Scapin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-29· cited 38×
• Gregoroff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-01-05· cited 38×
• Hazelrigs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-13· cited 34×
• Randolph v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-14· cited 26×
• Kyler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 24×
• Caylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-14· cited 24×
• MacK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-02-07· cited 23×
• Jividen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-22· cited 21×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-17· cited 19×
• Noble v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-09· cited 19×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-05-22· cited 19×
• Brower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-08· cited 18×
• Wells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-04-17· cited 16×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-06-23· cited 16×
• Hinton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-28· cited 6×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-22· cited 5×