Legal Opinion
Edwards v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 25, 2008No. S07A1591PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEARS, Chief Justice.
In 2002, Michael Edwards filed a pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging his 2001 conviction for cocaine possession. According to Edwards, his trial and appellate attorneys provided constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel because they were laboring under an actual conflict of interest that significantly affected their representation of him. The habeas court denied the petition after finding that there was no actual conflict of interest. We granted Edwards’s application for a certificate of probable cause to appeal and now reverse.
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2Cases cited22 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- United States v. CronicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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3Cited by18 opinions
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