Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Co. v. Ellmore

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that once an issue is dispositive, an appellate court does not need to address any remaining arguments
• declaring a criminal defendant's right to testify is a well-established right in South Carolina
• differentiating between structural errors and trial errors subject to harmless error review
• \[A] trial court's improper refusal to permit a defendant to testify . . . is not amenable to harmless-error analysis.\
• \[A] trial court's improper refusal to permit a defendant to testify ... is not amenable to harmless-error analysis.\
• \it is difficult to fathom anything more logically connected to the fundamental issue\ in a case \than a defendant's own testimony about the [crime]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).