Lewandowski 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 a psychologist’s expert testimony about the defendant’s mental state was properly excluded as irrelevant to his claim of voluntary manslaughter
• holding that a psychologist's expert testimony about the defendant's mental state was properly excluded as irrelevant to his claim of voluntary manslaughter
• holding that psychological evidence regarding the effect of the victim’s conduct on the defendant’s mental state at the time of the killing was properly excluded as irrelevant to a voluntary manslaughter defense
• holding that psychological evidence regarding the effect of the victim’s conduct on the defendant’s mental state at the time of the killing was properly excluded as irrelevant to a voluntary manslaughter defense
• holding that psychological evidence regarding the effect of the victim’s conduct on the defendant’s mental state at the time of the killing was properly excluded as irrelevant to a voluntary manslaughter defense
• OCGA § 16-5-2 provides an objective standard; “[i]t is of no moment whether the provocation was sufficient to excite the deadly passion in the particular defendant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 62×
• Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-04· cited 57×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 44×
• Hall v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-22· cited 31×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-19· cited 30×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-17· cited 27×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-24· cited 22×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 13×
• Prothro v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 8×
• Frezghi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 6×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 4×
• Beck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 3×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 2×
• Barrera-Palamin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-06-26· cited 2×
• Riggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 2×
• Jesse Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-04

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 64×
• Selman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 25×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-07-02· cited 14×