Dawkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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• stating that testimony that improperly corroborates a child sex victim’s testimony has a devastating impact because of the cumulative effect of repeating the victim’s testimony, and thereby improperly bolstering the victim’s credibility
• finding counsel’s performance was deficient in making a decision not to object to the admission of testimony when the underlying strategy was not sound
• finding counsel's performance was deficient in making a decision not to object to the admission of testimony when the underlying strategy was not sound
• finding counsel's performance was deficient in making a decision not to object to the admission of testimony when the underlying strategy was not sound
• finding the testimony of four witnesses corroborating what the victim “told them regarding her alleged sexual abuse served only to bolster [the victim’s] credibility” and concluding such improper corroboration had a “ ‘devastating impact’ on petitioner’s trial”
• finding trial counsel's failure to object to testimony because he did not want to confuse or upset the jury was not a valid strategy because he could have sought a determination as to the inadmissibility of the testimony out of the hearing of the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jennings
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-09-19· cited 122×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2010-02-16· cited 59×
• State v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-01-06· cited 47×
• STALK v. Rice
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-10-05· cited 32×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-08-14· cited 25×
• Ingle v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-02-19· cited 24×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-01-07· cited 24×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-03-21· cited 22×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-06-17· cited 15×
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-03-25· cited 15×
• Tappeiner v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-05-04· cited 15×
• Huggler v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2004-09-07· cited 12×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-03-29· cited 9×
• Sanchez v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-08-26· cited 7×
• Teamer v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-04-13· cited 4×
• Vail v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2013-02-20· cited 3×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-02-08

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• State v. Torrence
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-05-20· cited 352×
• Caprood v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-01-04· cited 86×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-01-27· cited 82×
• State v. Dawkins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-02-21· cited 69×
• State v. Munn
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-06-22· cited 43×
• Jolly v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-05-09· cited 37×
• State v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1961-11-14· cited 31×
• Gallman v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-02-24· cited 28×
• Foye v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-07-26· cited 27×
• State v. Cox
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1980-05-13· cited 20×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-03-06· cited 18×
• State v. Harrison
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1960-04-06· cited 18×
• State v. Barrett
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-10-16· cited 16×