Lopez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that trial counsel’s decision to pursue an all-or-nothing defense instead of requesting jury instructions on voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter was not patently unreasonable
• holding that the evidence was sufficient to support defendant’s malice-murder and possession-of-a-firearm convictions where defendant claimed self-defense and gave “shifting accounts” of how the shooting occurred
• explaining that trial counsel does not perform deficiently by failing to make a meritless objection
• assuming without deciding that the evidence authorized an involuntary 56 manslaughter instruction, trial counsel’s decision not to pursue that instruction was not deficient performance, because (among other reasons
• “The continuing witness rule regulates which documents or recordings go into the jury room with the jury during deliberations and which ones do not. . . . The continuing witness rule was unaffected by the enactment of the current Evidence Code.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-27· cited 16×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Brock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 4×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 1×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 1×
• Desmond Legrant Staley, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-15
• CHAPMAN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-07-01
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-03

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 191×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 32×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 27×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 26×
• MOORE v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 24×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 22×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 21×
• Peacock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 21×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-05· cited 19×
• Velasco v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 19×
• Goodson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 18×
• Gardner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 10×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 8×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 6×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 5×