Whitehead 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 that “[cjourts must be wary of second-guessing counsel’s trial tactics; and where counsel articulates a valid reason for employing certain strategy, such conduct will not be deemed ineffective assistance of counsel”
• Stating that in the context of post-conviction relief that “[c]ourts must be wary of second-guessing counsel’s trial tactics; and where counsel articulates a valid reason for employing certain strategy, such conduct will not be deemed ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• if counsel articulates a valid reason for employing certain trial strategy, such tactics will not be deemed ineffective assistance of counsel
• if counsel articulates valid reason for employing certain trial strategy, such tactics will not be deemed-ineffective assistance of counsel
• “Courts must be wary of second-guessing counsel’s trial tactics; and where counsel articulates a valid reason for employing certain strategy, such conduct will not be deemed ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• counsel not ineffective where trial strategy reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-05-23· cited 40×
• Jolly v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-05-09· cited 37×
• State v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 36×
• Foye v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-07-26· cited 27×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-06-17· cited 15×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-01-10· cited 15×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2009-07-27· cited 12×
• McLaughlin v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-01-13· cited 7×
• Holman v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2009-03-09· cited 1×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2023-07-05

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-04-23· cited 231×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-12-04· cited 215×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1974-08-28· cited 141×
• Frett v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1988-09-26· cited 11×