King 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 that “[b]ecause the violence preceded the theft and was the means by which [defendant] secured the victim’s compliance with his demand, the aggravated assault conviction merged with the armed robbery conviction”
• counsel’s decision to waive opening statement was considered a matter of reasonable trial strategy and did not amount to ineffective assistance
• only violence employed against the victim was that which was used to effectuate the theft

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-06· cited 21×
• Bunkley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-24· cited 19×
• Kirk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-15· cited 10×
• Bazin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-08-28· cited 9×
• Murray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-01-26· cited 8×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-06-13· cited 5×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-21· cited 67×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 61×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-30· cited 29×
• Tenant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-10-02· cited 19×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-10-17· cited 18×
• McCord v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 16×
• Ranalli v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-23· cited 14×
• Moreland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-05-28· cited 13×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-10-04· cited 4×