Waits v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Permitting the effect of‘non-errors’ to be cumulated in order to reverse a conviction would vest nearly uncontrolled discretion in the appellate courts.”
• “Permitting the effect of ‘non-errors’ to be cumulated in order to reverse a conviction would vest nearly uncontrolled discretion in the appellate courts.”
• reconciling verdicts as not mutually exclusive, where a rational trier of fact could have found that the victim’s several injuries were not caused by the same act
• under Georgia law, “each individual error by defense counsel should not be considered in a vacuum ... it is the cumulative prejudice of counsel’s errors which is constitutionally relevant”
• “The rule prohibiting more than one conviction if one crime is included in the other does not apply unless ‘the same conduct’ of the accused establishes the commission of multiple crimes.”
• under Georgia law, “each individual error by defense counsel should not be considered in a vacuum . . . it is the cumulative prejudice of counsel’s errors which is constitutionally relevant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).