Pope 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 defendant failed to show how his trial counsel’s strategic decision not to seek a pre-trial immunity hearing and thereby reveal the defense theory to the prosecutor before trial, and instead to wait and present self-defense claim to the jury, was objectively unreasonable
• noting that “decisions regarding trial tactics and strategy may form the basis for an ineffectiveness claim only if they were so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have followed such a course” (punctuation omitted)
• where trial counsel testified that “she did not think that the trial judge would find [a pretrial immunity motion] sufficiently compelling to grant [and] just saved it for trial,” appellant failed to show that counsel’s strategic decision was unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Madera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 4×
• Emery Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 127×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Dent v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 33×
• Lanier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 17×
• BROXTON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 16×
• Broxton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 15×
• State v. Remy
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-03-13· cited 13×
• Szorcsik v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 7×