Hernandez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant could not establish prejudice-prong on ineffective assistance of counsel claim when he failed to show “that any witnesses would have testified on his behalf or what their testimony might have been”
• holding that defendant could not establish prejudice-prong on ineffective assistance of counsel claim when he failed to show “that any witnesses would have testified on his behalf or what their testimony might have been”
• trial counsel not ineffective for failing to investigate or call witnesses when appellant told him they had moved and he was unsure where to find or contact them
• “Mere speculation will not support a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• defendant must explain 31 what witnesses would have testified on his behalf or what their testimony might have been to establish reasonable probability that he would have received a more lenient sentence had counsel conducted further sentencing investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• New v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-27· cited 52×
• RAMIREZ v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-05-03· cited 12×
• Carcamo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-01-14· cited 12×
• Mattox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-18· cited 8×
• Thurman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-05· cited 5×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-16· cited 3×
• Andre Pearre Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-21
• Michael Brian Bernier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Jacquin Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-16
• Matthew Anthony New v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-27
• Andy Fabricio Carcamo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-01-14

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 135×
• Head v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 133×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 119×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-13· cited 114×
• Dickens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 114×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-23· cited 75×
• Slade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 69×
• McDaniel v. THE STATE
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-24· cited 41×
• Buttram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 30×
• Guyton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 25×
• Greer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-13· cited 15×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-23· cited 8×
• Solis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-02· cited 8×