Woods v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• Trial counsel not ineffective for conducting voir dire on priors where defendant expected to testify at time and defendant not prejudiced because each member of jury expressed ability to set aside any consideration of prior convictions.
• Trial counsel’s decision to conduct voir dire on prior convictions at a time when defendant expected to testify “did not fall below an objective standard of reasonableness at the time.” (citing Strickland, 466 U.S. at 688)
• Trial counsel’s decision to conduct voir dire on prior convictions at a time when defendant expected to testify “did not fall below an objective standard of-reasonableness at the time.” (citing Strickland, 466 U.S. at 688, 104 S.Ct. 2052)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Williams v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2017-07-25· cited 3×
• Scott v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1993-01-19

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-10-13· cited 631×
• State v. Woods
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1983-11-08· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1986-07-08· cited 9×
• Amsden v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1985-08-06· cited 6×