Huff v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that trial counsel did not perform deficiently by failing to request an accomplice-corroboration charge because \[t]rial counsel articulated a deliberate strategic purpose in not requesting a charge on accomplice testimony\ and such strategy was not patently unreasonable
• concluding that no plain error resulted from the failure to charge relevant statutory language, citing that the charge given was not overtly incorrect, and further citing the quantum of evidence adduced against the defendant
• concluding that trial counsel did not perform deficiently by failing to request an accomplice- corroboration charge because “[t]rial counsel articulated a deliberate strategic purpose in not requesting a charge on accomplice testimony” and such strategy was not patently unreasonable
• explaining that trial counsel reasonably chose not to request an accomplice-corroboration charge because the defense strategy was focused on showing that there was no connection between the appellant and the alleged accomplice
• explaining that trial counsel reasonably chose not to request an accomplice-corroboration charge because the defense strategy was focused on showing that there was no connection between the appellant and the alleged accomplice
• trial attorney’s strategic decision not to request accomplice corroboration charge did not amount to deficient performance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 86×
• Gomez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 51×
• Raines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 36×
• Manner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 32×
• Yarn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 29×
• Vasquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 29×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 19×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 16×
• Hurston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 14×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 13×
• CLEMENTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 12×
• Morton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 9×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 7×
• Deleon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-09· cited 2×
• Pindling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 2×
• ROSS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-27
• Yvonne Irene Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-28
• Stephon Maurice Best v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-03-15
• Jonathan Douglas MacMillan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-09-19

Cites

18 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×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Bradshaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 172×
• Stanbury v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 57×
• Handley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 42×
• State v. Worsley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 40×
• Herbert v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 37×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 29×
• Fisher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-08· cited 25×
• Bradford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 24×
• McLean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 24×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-06· cited 16×
• Norwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 11×
• Hutchins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-06· cited 10×