Kitchens 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 trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying appellant’s motion for new trial when “[trial] counsel strategically refuse[d] the trial court’s proffer of a curative instruction”
• holding that based on “the absence of any evidence of specific harm or prejudice to the defendant, the trial court did not err when it denied appellant’s motion for new trial on the basis of prosecutorial misconduct”
• no prejudice in failing to object to testimony where there was strong evidence of appellant’s guilt, including several eyewitnesses who testified that appellant shot the victim
• defendant on trial for murder was not prejudiced by counsel’s failure to object to testimony regarding defendant’s affiliation with a gang, where there was “overwhelming evidence of appellant’s guilt,” including the testimony of several eyewitnesses
• defendant on trial for murder was not prejudiced by counsel’s failure to object to testimony regarding defendant’s affiliation with a gang, where there was “overwhelming evidence of appellant’s guilt,” including the testimony of several eyewitnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-10· cited 74×
• Geiger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 24×
• Coley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-15· cited 24×
• Brewer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 19×
• Nations v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 15×
• JACKSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 15×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-01· cited 9×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-04-02· cited 9×
• Traylor v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-06-22· cited 8×
• CUYLER v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-12· cited 7×
• Herrington v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23· cited 5×
• Glass v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 4×
• KORPONAI v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-09· cited 3×
• Chelsea Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-01
• Joseph Scott Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-04-02

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 124×
• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 69×
• Character v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 33×
• Dockery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 29×
• Hinely v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-25· cited 27×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 24×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 14×