Griffin 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 an issue of law has not yet been “squarely decided,” “trial counsel’s failure to raise a novel legal argument does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• where our courts “have not yet squarely decided” an 8 issue, “trial counsel’s failure to raise a novel legal argument does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• “The failure to pursue a futile objection does not amount to ineffective assistance.”
• Where “we have not yet squarely decided” an issue, “trial counsel’s failure to raise a 3 See Mitchell, 238 Ga. at 168 (eye); Baker v. State, 245 Ga. 657, 667 (266 SE2d 477) (1980) (jaw); Miller v. State, 275 Ga. 730, 731-732 (571 SE2d 788) (2002) (brain

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-15· cited 20×
• Blalock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 4×
• State v. Riley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 2×
• John Earle McMurria v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-02
• Pedro Tamayo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-01
• Copney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-15

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Georgia v. McCollum
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-18· cited 1,235×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 122×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 64×
• Ventura v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 62×
• Fetty v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 52×
• Esprit v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 34×
• Sawyer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 27×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 6×
• London v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23· cited 2×