Starks 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 appellant could not establish the prejudice required to show ineffective assistance in light of overwhelming evidence of guilt
• holding that the defendant could not show prejudice on his ineffective-assistance claim that trial counsel should have * objected to the State's closing argument, in part because the trial court charged the jury that closing arguments should not be considered as evidence
• holding that the defendant could not show prejudice on his ineffective assistance claim that trial counsel should have objected to the State’s closing argument, in part because the trial court charged the jury that closing arguments should not be considered as evidence
• “Because there is no dispute that [the defendant] shot [the alleged victim] while committing two felonies, he could not claim self-defense, and the evidence therefore was overwhelming.”
• evidence was sufficient to support felony murder conviction where appellant shot and killed armed victim during drug transaction despite conflicting testimony as to whether appellant or victim drew and fired his weapon first

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 34×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 11×
• Gibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 9×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 6×
• Middleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 4×
• Starks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 75×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 59×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-23· cited 55×
• Crayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 36×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 34×
• Muse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 9×
• Austin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 7×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-07· cited 6×