State v. Covington

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 was not deprived of effective assistance of counsel based on his attorney's failure to request jury instruction on lesser-included offense
• \[W]e hold that the trial court did not err at all-much less commit plain error-by failing to instruct the jury on the lesser-included offense....\

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Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2017-04-04· cited 2×
• State v. Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2017-05-02
• State v. Hooks
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2025-10-01

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Edgar
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2015-08-18· cited 17×
• State v. Chaves
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2016-03-01· cited 4×