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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 41 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Anthony v. State.

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1 Anthony v. State Anchor
gactapp · 2012
green “following a criminal conviction, the defendant is no longer presumed innocent, and we view the evidence in the light most favorable to sustain the verdict.” 23
2 Henry v. State
ga · 2005
green “failure to make a meritless objection cannot be evidence of ineffective assistance.” 14
3 Flemister v. State
gactapp · 2012
green “trial tactics and strategy, no matter how mistaken in hindsight, are almost never adequate grounds for finding trial counsel ineffective unless they are so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen them.” 4

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