Landers v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that it had been held in Mallory “that the state may not comment on either a defendant’s silence prior to arrest or failure to come forward voluntarily, even when the defendant chooses to testify at trial”
• finding no reasonable probability that trial counsel’s failure to object to the prosecutor’s improper comments on the defendant’s silence led to a different result
• counsel performed deficiently in failing to object to comment on defendant’s right to remain silent, but defendant failed to show prejudice
• “Generally, evidence of flight . . . [is] admissible as circumstantial evidence of consciousness of guilt.”
• state improperly commented upon defendant’s silence during argument but error not preserved for appellate review due to counsel’s failure to object
• state improperly commented upon defendant’s silence but error not preserved for appellate review due to counsel’s failure to object

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

46 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 73×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 55×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 41×
• Pearson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 36×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-18· cited 33×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 32×
• Waldrip v. Head
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-12· cited 32×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 29×
• Bogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-13· cited 27×
• Callendar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 26×
• Kurtz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-12· cited 24×
• Weitzel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-12-21· cited 24×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 23×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-30· cited 23×
• Tennyson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 19×
• Shaheed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-31· cited 16×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-09· cited 13×
• Laredo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-07· cited 13×
• Melson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-16· cited 12×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-17· cited 12×

Cites

10 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×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• Renner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-07· cited 120×
• Stubbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 44×
• Bland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-07· cited 35×
• Jarrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-20· cited 33×
• Parmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-03-11· cited 5×
• Marable v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-21· cited 5×