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Lewis v. State

Citations

  • 291 Ga. 273
  • 731 S.E.2d 51
  • 2012 Fulton County D. Rep. 1986
  • 2012 WL 2369410
  • 2012 Ga. LEXIS 629

How courts have described this case

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

  • reiterating that “a defendant cannot resuscitate procedurally barred claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel simply by bootstrapping them to a claim of ineffectiveness of appellate counsel”
  • reiterating that a remand to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on an ineffectiveness claim is not necessary where “we can determine from the record that the two-prong test for ineffectiveness cannot be met”
  • reiterating that a remand to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on an ineffectiveness claim is not necessary where “we can determine from the record that the two-prong test for ineffectiveness cannot be met”
  • reiterating that a remand to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on an ineffectiveness claim is not necessary where “we can determine from the record that the two-prong test for ineffectiveness cannot he met”
  • reiterating that a remand to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on an ineffectiveness claim is not necessary where “we can determine from the record that the two prong test for ineffectiveness cannot be met”
  • giving of improper jury charge on reliability of eyewitness testimony was harmless given that eyewitness identification “did not play a 13 significant role in the State’s case”

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Judges: Hines

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