Sharkey v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a jury could construe text messages representing “an attempt to fabricate an alibi” and other lies as evidence of consciousness of guilt
• holding that appellant failed to establish prejudice on his claim that trial counsel was ineffective in failing to have certain evidence admitted, in part, based on the strength of the evidence against appellant
• “A nonconstitutional error is harmless if the State shows that it is 10 highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 6×
• Ryals v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 3×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10
• BENNETT v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-05

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pounds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 33×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 27×
• Somchith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 26×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 26×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 26×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 25×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-07-05· cited 25×
• Clarke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-04· cited 19×
• Zayas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 18×
• Talley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 11×
• Clemons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-01-10· cited 9×
• Maynor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 9×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 8×
• Harmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 8×
• Nunnally v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 5×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 5×
• Wise v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 4×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 4×