Griffin v. State

How courts have described this case

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• noting that admissibility of such evidence was still an open question under Georgia law but that in any event appellant had failed to show he had knowledge of victim’s prior crime
• finding no ineffective assistance where counsel stated a reasonable strategy 33 regarding his decision not to object to evidence of his client’s racism
• explaining that trial counsel was not deficient for failing to object to the introduction of evidence concerning defendant’s racism because it was helpful to his defense to show that his racism and use of a racial slur triggered the victim to violently attack him
• a victim’s violent character is not an essential element of a self-defense claim
• “Given counsel’s founded, reasonable belief that [appellant] was best served by using this evidence to his advantage instead of objecting to it, counsel’s decision amounted to reasonable trial strategy that does not constitute deficient performance.”
• defense affirmatively waived objection to prosecution eliciting 19 testimony about defendant’s racism because the defense made a strategic decision not to object to this evidence, and instead attempted to use it “to bolster his claim of self-defense and to undermine the State’s case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 32×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Walker v. the States
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 19×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 15×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-07-07· cited 13×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 12×
• Copeland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 10×
• Dunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 9×
• McNabb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 8×
• Holloway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 8×
• State v. Kenney
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 7×
• Acosta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 6×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 6×
• Perrault v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-02· cited 5×
• Sharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 2×
• Raheem Almalik Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Quintanar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Emery Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18
• Robert Ray Whipkey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-03-06

Cites

30 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• United States v. Kon Yu-Leung, Also Known as Johnny Kon, John Ruotolo
  Second Circuit· 1995-04-07· cited 215×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 117×
• United States v. Gulley
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-04-30· cited 112×
• State v. Almanza
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 98×
• Cheddersingh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 86×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 55×
• Bozzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 55×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 51×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 51×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 49×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 39×
• United States v. Etienne
  First Circuit· 2014-10-29· cited 39×