Watson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing when counsel provides a valid trial strategy in response to a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim, counsel’s performance will not be deemed deficient
• recognizing when counsel provides a valid trial strategy in response to a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim, counsel's performance will not be deemed deficient
• finding trial counsel was not deficient when his failure to object to inadmissible hearsay testimony was part of a valid trial strategy
• finding counsel’s performance was not deficient in making the decision not to object to “inadmissible” testimony because his strategy—that doing so “might lead to the more damaging introduction” of other evidence—was valid
• finding counsel’s performance was not deficient in making the decision not to object to “inadmissible” testimony because his strategy—that doing so “might lead to the more damaging introduction” of other evidence—was valid
• finding trial counsel had articulated a valid strategy for not objecting to the corroborative and impermissible hearsay where counsel reasonably believed that objecting to the corroborative testimony could lead to the introduction of more damaging evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smalls v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-02-07· cited 93×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2010-02-16· cited 59×
• STALK v. Rice
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-10-05· cited 32×
• State v. Vick
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-06-25· cited 30×
• Mangal v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-07-19· cited 24×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-03-21· cited 22×
• Briggs v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-10-25· cited 17×
• Council v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-12-29· cited 11×
• South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles v. McCarson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-01-24· cited 11×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-03-29· cited 9×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-10-05· cited 7×
• Weik v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2014-07-23· cited 7×
• Vail v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2013-02-20· cited 3×
• State v. Nance
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-07-11· cited 2×
• Abney v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2014-03-19· cited 2×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-02-08

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-12-04· cited 215×
• Caprood v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-01-04· cited 86×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-01-10· cited 75×
• Holland v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-04-29· cited 52×
• Jolly v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-05-09· cited 37×
• McCray v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-02-27· cited 34×
• Dawkins v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-08-13· cited 33×
• State v. Cabrera-Pena
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2004-11-08· cited 29×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-06-05· cited 29×
• Magazine v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2004-12-06· cited 11×
• State v. Watson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-03-17· cited 4×