Letson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• trial counsel’s failure to call a witness cannot be deemed “prejudicial” without a showing that the witness’s testimony would have been relevant and favorable to the defendant
• in assessing the prejudicial effect of an attorney’s failure to call a witness, the defendant bears the burden of showing how the failure affected the outcome of the case
• no abuse of discretion in denying continuance because defendant failed to substantiate his claim that absent witness would have provided material testimony by failing to call that witness at motion for new trial hearing
• no abuse of discretion in denying continuance because defendant failed to substantiate his claim that absent witness would have provided material testimony by failing to call that witness at motion for new trial hearing
• defendant bears burden of establishing prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Curry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-10· cited 33×
• Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-25· cited 27×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 27×
• Keith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-18· cited 19×
• Serrate v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-01· cited 16×
• Ingram v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-26· cited 16×
• Reynolds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-04-21· cited 15×
• Grooms v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-06· cited 12×
• Robison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-04· cited 12×
• Holloway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-21· cited 12×
• Swint v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-13· cited 11×
• Joyner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-07· cited 11×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 9×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-04-13· cited 6×
• Stevens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-29· cited 6×
• Eller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-01· cited 5×
• Clonts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-12-23· cited 4×
• Revells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-25· cited 2×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-22· cited 1×
• Pope v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-30

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 135×
• Watts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-07-14· cited 35×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-01-16· cited 14×
• Tomlin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-03-05· cited 11×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1969-10-06· cited 10×
• Luttrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-10-21· cited 8×
• Frost v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1955-03-11· cited 7×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 3×