Legal Opinion
Peterson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 30, 2008No. S08A0662PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEARS, Chief Justice.
In 1998, a Houston County jury convicted Martin Daniel Peterson of the malice murder of Nina Albright, his live-in girlfriend and mother to his infant daughter. The trial court sentenced Peterson to life in prison, and he appealed. In 2001, we affirmed Peterson’s conviction and sentence in all respects but one and remanded the case to the trial court for the limited purpose of considering his claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel. The trial court conducted an evidentiary hearing after which it rejected Peterson’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim and…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Bell v. ConeSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Snyder v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Rose v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Rushen v. SpainSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Hulett v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2014
- Ward v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2011
- Bridges v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2008
- Carruth v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2012
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