Martinez 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 “a defendant may not attempt to impeach the character or veracity of a witness by specific instances of prior misconduct unless the misconduct has resulted in the conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude” (punctuation omitted)
• “[T]he evidence fails to demonstrate that trial counsel’s decision to forego an insanity or delusional compulsion defense based upon PTSD was unreasonable.”
• “[T]he evidence fails to demonstrate that trial counsel’s decision to forego an insanity or delusional compulsion defense based upon PTSD was 18 unreasonable.”
• “a defendant may not attempt to impeach the character or veracity of a witness by specific instances of prior misconduct unless the misconduct has resulted in the conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude”
• “a defendant may not attempt to impeach the character or veracity of a witness by specific instances of prior misconduct unless the misconduct has resulted in the conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-10· cited 74×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 33×
• Whitus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 19×
• Coats v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-22· cited 16×
• Zeagler v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-16· cited 7×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 6×
• Lopez v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-08· cited 2×
• Shelton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-05
• William Zeagler v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-16
• Tiffany Shelton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-05
• Paul Serdula v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-18

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Al-Amin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-24· cited 78×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 40×
• Navarrete v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 33×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-31· cited 27×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 25×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 25×
• Radford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 6×