Jones 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 17 that a reasonable lawyer may decide not to object to statements that may create sympathy for his client
• reasonable strategy not to object to evidence that “might be useful to create sympathy for the [defendants] and convince a jury that they did not act with malice”
• no deficient performance where, among other things, damaging evidence from the recordings was cumulative of other evidence, and allowing the statements to be played allowed counsel to present a defense without having the appellant testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 36×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 20×
• Zayas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 18×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 13×
• Duncan v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-08-09· cited 7×

Cites

16 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 99×
• United States v. Guzman
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-02-12· cited 78×
• Durham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 76×
• Grissom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 57×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 55×
• Rini v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-11· cited 34×
• Spears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 24×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 17×
• Whitner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-07-10· cited 15×
• Dubose v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 11×
• McFOLLEY v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 10×