Mitchell 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 an actual conflict existed where defense counsel's representation of a witness in an unrelated matter precluded him from cross-examining the witness at the appellant's trial
• holding that an actual conflict existed where defense counsel’s representation of a witness in an unrelated matter precluded him from cross- examining the witness at the appellant’s trial
• holding that when a State witness was a current client of defense counsel in an unrelated criminal matter, counsel’s ability to cross-examine the witness was constrained
• defense counsel objected at trial to conflict because he had obtained privileged information from the witness in the unrelated criminal matter
• conflict of interest arising from defense counsel’s simultaneous representation of defendant and state’s witness continued even after defense counsel was relieved of his representation of the state’s witness
• conflicts can arise from defense counsel’s representation of prosecution witness in unrelated matters

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thomason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-16· cited 82×
• Lynd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-27· cited 75×
• State v. Abernathy
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-05· cited 57×
• Sallie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 25×
• Capers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-16· cited 24×
• Lamb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-07-15· cited 23×
• Chapel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-16· cited 16×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 15×
• William Earl Lynd v. William Terry
  Eleventh Circuit· 2006-11-28· cited 13×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-15· cited 12×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-24· cited 8×
• Tanner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 8×
• Cameron Jerome White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-08-22

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Glasser v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-09· cited 10,035×
• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• Leversen v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1983-09-06· cited 41×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-09-09· cited 9×