Lamarca v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reasonable trial strategy for counsel not to call people who were not credible and would not have made good defense witnesses
• reasonable trial strategy for counsel not to call persons who were not credible and would not have made good defense witnesses
• \We have long recognized that strategic decisions by trial counsel are `virtually unchallengeable.'\ (quoting Downs v. State, 453 So.2d 1102, 1108 (Fla.1984))
• “Lamarca represented himself during the penalty phase; therefore, he cannot claim his trial counsel was deficient for decisions he made in conducting his defense during this phase.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bolin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-07-01· cited 82×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-24· cited 60×
• Lamarca v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-05-19· cited 54×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-06-07· cited 37×
• Chames v. DeMayo
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-20· cited 30×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-12-10· cited 27×
• Krawczuk v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-04-12· cited 26×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-12· cited 17×
• John Steven Huggins v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-10-09· cited 12×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2006-06-30· cited 7×
• Ferguson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-10-31· cited 5×
• & SC14-1248 Tai A. Pham v. State of Florida & Tai A. Pham v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-11-05· cited 4×
• Callaway v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-09-28· cited 4×
• Casey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-10-03· cited 3×
• Mark A. Twilegar v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-05-28· cited 3×
• Reeves v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-06-13· cited 2×
• Hurley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-08-17· cited 1×
• McLin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-02-21· cited 1×
• & SC12-2161 John Steven Huggins v. State of Florida & John Steven Huggins v. Michael D. Crews, etc. - Corrected Opinion
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-04-02
• Joel T. Cooper v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-08-07

Cites

45 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• Schriro v. Summerlin
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 2,419×
• Pope v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-10-16· cited 230×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-11-24· cited 205×
• Rutherford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-12-17· cited 139×
• Coney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-01-05· cited 135×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-28· cited 124×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 119×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-19· cited 118×
• Busby v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-02-03· cited 105×
• Koon v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-25· cited 104×
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-21· cited 100×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-11-12· cited 89×
• Dufour v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-14· cited 83×
• State v. Bowen
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 70×