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· 9/25/2013

In re Chaplin

Citations

  • 405 S.C. 605
  • 748 S.E.2d 791
  • 2013 WL 5350918
  • 2013 S.C. LEXIS 244

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the admission of a confession, assuming it was improper, was a nonstructural error
  • explaining that the erroneous admission of a confession is a nonstructural, constitutional defect that is subject to harmless-error analysis
  • explaining that the erroneous admission of a confession is a nonstructural, constitutional defect that is subject to harmless-error analysis
  • “Ordinarily the request for a Walker hearing would preserve only arguments regarding the voluntariness of a confession.”
  • a defendant preserves for appeal a challenge to the voluntariness of a confession by requesting a Walker hearing

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