International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 102 v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 52

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a detective’s testimony that the defendant’s “demeanor changed . . . you could tell that the wheels were turning” was not a “direct comment on [the defendant’s] veracity”
• holding that the failure to raise a meritless objection is not deficient performance
• concluding that defense counsel’s failure to present the victim’s toxicology report did not prejudice the defendant in part because the report “would have been cumulative of other evidence introduced at trial”
• holding that a detective’s testimony that the defendant’s “demeanor changed . . . you could tell that the wheels were turning” was not a “direct comment on [the defendant’s] veracity”
• holding that the failure to raise a meritless objection does not constitute deficient performance
• “[T]he jury . . . is free to reject a defendant’s claim that he acted in self-defense.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).