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Green v. State

Citations

  • 638 S.E.2d 288
  • 281 Ga. 322
  • 2006 Fulton County D. Rep. 3720
  • 2006 Ga. LEXIS 992

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  • holding that defense counsel asking detective if he believed witness although bolstering was reasonable as counsel “was seeking to undermine the testimony by mocking the detective’s belief in a witness whose statements were so inconsistent” (punctuation omitted)
  • defense attorney “was seeking to undermine [the] testimony by mocking the detective’s belief in a witness whose statements were so inconsistent”
  • no deficient performance where counsel sought to undermine a witness's credibility \by mocking the detective's belief in a witness whose statements were so inconsistent\
  • no deficient performance where counsel sought to undermine a witness’s credibility “by mocking the detective’s belief in a witness whose statements were so inconsistent”
  • defense attorney “was seeking to undermine [the] testimony by mocking the detective’s belief in a witness whose statements were so inconsistent”
  • “Although the tactic may have been ineffective, we perceive trial counsel’s attempt to undermine the testimony of the State’s witness as a matter of reasonable strategy.”

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Judges: Benham

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