Lay 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 evidence that the crimes occurred in the front yard of a home across the street from the victim’s Fulton County address was sufficient to prove that the crimes were committed in Fulton County
• vacating “both felony murder convictions and sentences and remand[ing] the case for the trial court to enter a conviction and sentence on only one of them and to adjust any affected convictions and sentences accordingly”
• “An aggressor is not entitled to a finding of justification.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• counsel reasonably could have chosen not to object to a brief comment during testimony about the defendant’s invocation of his right to remain silent so as not to draw attention to it
• “[A] jury is free to disbelieve the defendant’s evidence of self-defense.”
• “The fact that trial counsel failed to articulate any strategic reasons for [her] failure to object makes no difference, however, because our inquiry is focused on the objective reasonableness of counsel’s performance, not counsel’s subjective state of mind.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pounds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 33×
• Schoicket v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 29×
• Velasco v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 19×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 13×
• Parrott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 13×
• Committee on Legal Ethics of the West Virginia State Bar v. Sheatsley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-11-21· cited 10×
• Holloway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 8×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-24· cited 4×
• Roderick Moreland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-10
• June Williams, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-01
• Lewis Halle, Jr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-21
• Lay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-15
• Christian Evans Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-02-23
• Carl Neil Morey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-06-04

Cites

21 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 243×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 191×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 167×
• Cowart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 102×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 65×
• Fairclough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 55×
• Worthen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 55×
• Lay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-16· cited 53×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 46×
• Mosby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 40×
• State v. Spratlin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 27×
• Agee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-24· cited 23×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-10· cited 22×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-03· cited 19×