Moorehead v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing grant of PCR on the ground that there was no evidence to support the PCR judge’s finding that applicant received ineffective assistance of counsel due to erroneous sentencing advice where “any misconception was cured at the plea hearing”
• “Failure to conduct an independent investigation does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel when the allegation is supported only by mere speculation as to the result.”
• “failure to conduct an independent investigation does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel wiien the allegation is supported only by mere speculation as to the result.”
• “Respondent’s explanation that he answered the trial court affirmatively on counsel’s alleged advice that the questions were meaningless does not support the grant of PCR.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-05-01· cited 34×
• Knox v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-04-24· cited 28×
• Rollison v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-08-20· cited 20×
• Pittman v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-12-06· cited 17×
• Holden v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-07-25· cited 14×
• Lorenzen v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-02-11· cited 12×
• Burnett v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-01-13· cited 11×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-11-27· cited 10×
• Dalton v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-12-18· cited 5×
• Stalk v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-10-05· cited 2×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2012-02-08· cited 1×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wolfe v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-05-12· cited 25×
• Kibler v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1976-07-23· cited 17×
• Satterwhite v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-02-18· cited 12×