Lyons v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that trial court properly admitted a social-media photograph posted “just hours before the shooting in which he was holding the handgun used to kill [the victim]” as intrinsic evidence
• assuming that trial court committed two evidentiary errors and that trial counsel was deficient in failing to object to evidence, the cumulative effect of the assumed deficiency and errors did not collectively result in harm to defendant
• holding appellant’s statements in voicemail message not excluded by hearsay rule
• holding it was “proper” to instruct jury that defendant could be guilty of aggravated assault if he “attempted to cause a violent injury” to the victims or “intentionally committed an act that placed” the victims “in reasonable fear of immediately receiving a violent injury”
• rejecting the appellant’s argument 31 that a photograph showing “[the appellant] in possession of a gun . . . improperly placed his character in issue and was highly prejudicial” under OCGA §§ 24-4-403 and 24-4-404 (a) because (1
• “The test for determining . . . harmless error is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.” (Citation and punctuation omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 63×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 39×
• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 35×
• Pritchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 29×
• MUSE v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 27×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 23×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 16×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 14×
• Dukes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 14×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 12×
• Martinez-Arias v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 12×
• CLEMENTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 12×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 10×
• Dobbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 8×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-05· cited 7×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 7×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-01-17· cited 6×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 6×
• JONES v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-23· cited 5×

Cites

30 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×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Lupoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 125×
• Anglin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 118×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 104×
• Peoples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 75×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 62×
• Flournoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-10· cited 39×
• Rainwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 36×
• Patel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 34×
• Nalls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 33×
• NALLS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 33×
• Cotton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 30×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 21×
• Wyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 20×
• Blackledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 20×