Varner v. State

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• noting that counsel have “ ‘wide leeway... to argue all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from the evidence during closing argument’ ” (citation omitted)
• noting that counsel have “ ‘wide leeway... to argue all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from the evidence during closing argument’ ” (citations omitted)
• noting that counsel have “ ‘wide leeway . . . to argue all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from the evidence during closing argument’ ” (citations omitted)
• prosecutor’s reference to victim as a “battered woman” was a permissible inference from the evidence
• counsel have “ ‘wide leeway ... to argue all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from the evidence during closing argument’ ”
• counsel are given “wide leeway . . . to argue all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from the evidence during closing argument”

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Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-29· cited 88×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 34×
• Ridley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 30×
• Silvey v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 26×
• Blocker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 25×
• Durden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 23×
• CRUSSELLE v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-07· cited 21×
• Lamar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 17×
• Pyburn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-01· cited 13×
• Massey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-23· cited 11×
• Jones v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-05· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-06· cited 5×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-19· cited 2×
• Rankin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-07· cited 2×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 1×
• Christopher Gerald Silvey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-20
• Pierre K. Riley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-21

Cites

8 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×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 40×
• Zellars v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-12· cited 23×
• Appling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 18×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 17×
• Zant v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-10-05· cited 16×
• State v. Varner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-26· cited 12×