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· 10/18/1990

Jowers v. State

Citations

  • 396 S.E.2d 891
  • 260 Ga. 459

How courts have described this case

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

  • trial counsel's failure to present evidence that was available and could have supported an alternative theory was not sound trial strategy
  • trial counsel’s failure to present evidence that was available and could have supported an alternative theory was not sound trial strategy
  • counsel’s function is to make the adversarial testing process work in the particular case
  • counsel's function is to make the adversarial testing process work in the particular case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Fletcher, Benham

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