Lawton 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 “the trial court, which sat as the finder of fact for purposes of the . . . hearing, was entitled to disbelieve” the defendant
• noting that “the trial court, which sat as the finder of fact for purposes of the . . . hearing, was entitled to disbelieve” the defendant
• decision over which defense to pursue was a reasonable strategic one in light of the representations made by the defendant to his counsel prior to trial
• counsel’s decision not to file a motion to suppress was strategic and did not fall outside the wide range of reasonable professional assistance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Coats v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-22· cited 16×
• Perera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 14×
• Riggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-31· cited 12×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-30· cited 11×
• Murray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-01-26· cited 8×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-04· cited 8×
• Skinner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-13· cited 6×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-07· cited 5×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 5×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-14· cited 4×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-04· cited 3×
• Charles v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-09-26· cited 1×
• Teemer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-07
• Nelson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-29
• Melvin Walton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Darren Riggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-31
• Ronald Bernard Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-07
• Deshawn Rahmel Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-04
• Ronald Bernard Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-02

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• United States v. Salvucci
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,879×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-06· cited 117×
• Rios v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-30· cited 28×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-30· cited 18×
• Norris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-19· cited 13×
• McDowell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-12-07· cited 10×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-07-27· cited 9×
• Heyward v. Humphrey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-02· cited 8×