Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2/26/1990

State v. Bell

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393 S.E.2d 364
302 S.C. 18
1990 S.C. LEXIS 131

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holding exclusion of evidence is reversible only where error and prejudice are shown
applying Wainwright v. Witt, 469 U.S. 412, 424, 105 S. Ct. 844, 852, 83 L. Ed. 2d 841, 851-52 (1985)
reasoning evidence was admissible to show motive and state of mind under Rule 404(b), SCRE
evidence of motive is admissible as relevant and need not be necessary to the State’s case
to reverse a case based on erroneous exclusion of evidence, error and prejudice must be shown
by his own actions, Bell linked the two murders together and consequently the evidence of the taped telephone conversations between Bell and the victim’s family was probative of his conduct

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Judges: Toal, Gregory, Harwell, Chandler, Finney

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