Sawyer v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• failing to object to testimony was reasonable trial strat- egy where the statement was used to support defendant’s overall defense strategy
• failing to object to hearsay was reasonable trial strategy where the statement was used to support the overall defense strategy and em- phasize that a witness had lied about the victim’s injuries
• rejecting claim of ineffective assistance where trial counsel’s decision not to object to detective’s testimony about witness’s prior statement was not unreasonable strategy in light of overarching defense strategy to discredit the witness
• “[T]rial counsel’s failure to raise a novel legal argument does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• witness’s prior consistent statement admissible to rebut implication that witness’s pre-trial statement differed from her trial testimony
• “[T]rial counsel’s failure to raise a novel legal argument does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 53×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Rashad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 21×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-24· cited 20×
• Pender v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-15· cited 19×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Sinkfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 17×
• Hurston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 14×
• CLEMENTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 12×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 10×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 8×
• Prickett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-23· cited 8×
• Reddick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 8×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-11-07· cited 6×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 5×
• Jiles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 4×
• Najarro v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 2×
• Armaster McEady v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Francis Santos Castaneda v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Samuel A. Brewton, III. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-12-08

Cites

28 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 47×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 28×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-06-14· cited 27×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 27×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 25×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 24×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05· cited 24×
• Koonce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29· cited 24×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-07-16· cited 22×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-24· cited 20×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 17×