Freeman 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 no deficient performance and, thus, no ineffective assistance where trial counsel could not locate witness despite extensive efforts because witness’s family had assisted in concealing her in another state
• The “failure to satisfy either prong of the test for ineffective assistance of counsel is fatal to the claim of ineffectiveness.”
• failure to make a meritless motion does not prejudice defendant
• failure to make a meritless motion cannot prejudice defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 36×
• Hargett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 25×
• Goldsby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-06· cited 22×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 18×
• Mullis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-25· cited 14×
• Marlin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-22· cited 12×
• Keller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-06-28· cited 11×
• Varner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-13· cited 8×
• Whitworth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-29· cited 8×
• Starling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-21· cited 5×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 5×
• Murray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-04-17· cited 3×
• The State v. Reynolds
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-13· cited 3×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-08· cited 2×
• Harding v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-20· cited 2×
• Michael Hettrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-22
• Anthony Mates Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-25

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 227×
• Crozier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-31· cited 37×
• Herring v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-10· cited 18×
• Scruggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 17×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-20· cited 10×