Stephens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court did not err in denying defendant’s request for continuance to hire new counsel because “he felt mighty incompetent with [his appointed] attorney”
• defendant gave no reason why he waited until the day of trial to hire new counsel, stating only that he felt “‘mighty incompetent’” with appointed counsel; no indication in record that tactic was other than attempt to delay trial
• although racial distinctions are offensive and will be closely scrutinized, “we cannot say that every such reference is prejudicial as a matter of law; to call it a deficiency of counsel as a matter of law might deprive a defendant of an important defense in some cases”
• although racial distinctions are offensive and will be closely scrutinized, “we cannot say that every such reference is prejudicial as a matter of law; to call it a deficiency of counsel as a matter of law might deprive a defendant of an important defense in some cases”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 56×
• Ney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-29· cited 45×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 22×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-16· cited 20×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-16· cited 12×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-11· cited 9×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-12· cited 8×
• Tinker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-10-23· cited 7×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-14· cited 7×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-08-27· cited 6×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-25· cited 5×
• Gipson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-04-09· cited 4×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-12· cited 2×
• Robert Allen Shaum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-17

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 182×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 179×
• Durden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-16· cited 129×
• Kirkland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-03-07· cited 42×
• Kornegay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-03-15· cited 21×
• Huckaby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1972-09-05· cited 20×
• Timberlake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-05· cited 16×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-25· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-05-15· cited 8×
• Wallis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-01-30· cited 7×
• Pippins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-06· cited 6×
• Spinks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-05-15· cited 4×