Legal Opinion
Gross v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided May 21, 1992No. S92A0500PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Fletcher, Justice.
Keith Gross was convicted of the murder of Thomas E. Douglass and sentenced to life imprisonment. Gross asserts that he was denied effective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel failed to present lay and psychiatric testimony, failed to request a self-defense charge, and acquiesced to the state’s theory of the case. We affirm.
Gross followed his former girl friend, Annette Withers, and Douglass in an automobile to the home of Withers’ mother to pick up some of his clothes. Gross testified that during this trip Douglass acted like he was loading a gun inside the car…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Smith v. FrancisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
- Crawford v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
- Pitts v. GlassSupreme Court of Georgia · 1974
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3Cited by45 opinions
- DeYoung v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
- Williams v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1995
- Randolph v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1997
- White v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1996
- Jones v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1995
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