Battle v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where jury asked for written instructions on self-defense, PCR applicant was prejudiced by inadequate instructions
• counsel was ineffective in failing to request additional jury instructions on self-defense when warranted by the evidence, despite fact that judge had instructed jury in accordance with prior court-approved self-defense charge
• counsel was ineffective in failing to request additional jury instructions on self-defense when warranted by the evidence, despite fact that judge had instructed jury in accordance with prior court-approved self-defense charge
• counsel was ineffective in failing to request additional jury instructions on self-defense when warranted by the evidence, despite fact that judge had instructed jury in accordance with prior court-approved self-defense charge
• counsel was ineffective in failing to request additional jury instructions on self-defense when warranted by the evidence, despite fact that judge had instructed jury in accordance with prior court-approved self-defense charge
• counsel ineffective in not requesting specific self-defense instruction on retreat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1993-07-06· cited 60×
• State v. Cherry
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-11-13· cited 13×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-07-21· cited 12×
• Gilchrist v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-04-25· cited 7×
• State v. Cherry
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-02-12· cited 3×
• Pauling v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-06-24· cited 2×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-08-27· cited 103×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-06-18· cited 97×
• State v. Fuller
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-03-06· cited 48×
• State v. Funchess
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1976-10-18· cited 36×
• State v. Harvey
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1951-12-17· cited 31×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1955-06-07· cited 23×
• State v. Sales
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-04-01· cited 9×