Tepanca v. State

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• holding that the trial court did not err in failing to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter, because as a matter of law the defendant’s “sexual jealousy was based wholly on supposition”
• reasoning that the trial court did not err in failing to instruct the jury on sexual jealousy, because the defendant’s “sexual jealousy was based wholly on supposition”
• “[Appellant] leaves this Court to engage in a guessing game as to how appellate counsel’s representation, or rather lack thereof, might have amounted to ineffective assistance. Under these circumstances, [Appellant] has failed to show even a possibility of ineffective assistance[.]”
• be- cause defendant’s “sexual jealousy was based wholly on supposi- tion” that his affair partner “had gone out with” the victim, the evidence did not authorize a jury instruction on sexual jealousy as provocation for voluntary manslaughter
• no error in denying request for instruction on mutual combat where the defendant claimed that he did not want to fight the victim but shot the victim in self-defense after he thought he saw the victim reaching for something

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Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 35×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 25×
• Barron v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 22×
• BRYSON v. JACKSON
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 10×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-21· cited 8×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 8×
• ROWLAND v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-12· cited 7×
• Priester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 7×
• SERDULA v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-15· cited 6×
• PUGH v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-23· cited 6×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Kinlaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 4×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 3×
• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 2×
• Tepanca v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-04-20
• Kaitlin Poole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-12-19
• Justin Hewett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-04-26
• Mbungu v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

19 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×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• United States v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1984-12-10· cited 2,102×
• Milam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-12· cited 180×
• Joyner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-10-10· cited 139×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Dumas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-06-17· cited 82×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-26· cited 51×
• Roper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-04-24· cited 45×
• Turpin v. Curtis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-22· cited 39×
• State v. Sims
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 37×
• Shepherd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-30· cited 24×
• Charleston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 23×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 22×
• Biddy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-06· cited 17×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 8×
• Mayweather v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-09-05· cited 8×

Other cases named Tepanca v. State

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Tepanca v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-04-20