Shaffer v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no ineffective assistance in absence of a bolstering objection where investigator testified that victims’ statements were “consistent,” because investigator did not comment on victims’ credibility or indicate whether he found them to be truthful
• failure to make meritless objection does not constitute ineffective assistance
• failure to make a meritless objection does not constitute ineffective assistance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Stillwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-06· cited 23×
• Farley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-09· cited 8×
• Johnnie Willard Shaffer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-08-25
• Timothy John Wilson, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-05
• Roderick Moreland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-10

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Freeman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-01· cited 19×
• Gay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-12-13· cited 17×
• Kohlhaas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-08· cited 15×
• Lockett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-25· cited 15×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-16· cited 14×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-15· cited 14×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-12· cited 12×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-12-12· cited 6×
• Ellis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-31· cited 6×