Kilpatrick 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 strategic decision “fell within scope of reasonable and professional representation”
• concluding that strategic decision \fell within scope of reasonable and professional representation\
• noting that the “danger” of having a family member identify the photograph of the decedent “is the risk of a family member’s emotional outburst during trial”
• holding that it was a reasonable trial tactic for counsel to forgo objecting to questionable testimony from the victim’s mother to avoid appearing “insensitive” in front of the jury where counsel deemed that such an objection was not “crucial” to the defense
• counsel acted reasonably in not objecting to non- crucial testimony of victim’s mother to avoid appearing insensitive
• counsel not ineffective in failing to object to certain testimony because he did not want to appear to be insensitive in front of the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 47×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 39×
• Jessie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 27×
• Buice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-29· cited 16×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-28· cited 16×
• Hughley v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-03· cited 14×
• Richards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 14×
• Barner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-10· cited 10×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 10×
• Leggett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-19· cited 10×
• Gold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 4×
• Wallin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-25· cited 3×
• Bryan Fossier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-12-29
• Jasper Leggett Jr. A/K/A Dramourno Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-19

Cites

9 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×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 108×
• Tharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-17· cited 88×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 87×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 78×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 44×
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 30×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 22×