· 8/17/2009
State v. Clasby
Citations
- 682 S.E.2d 892
- 385 S.C. 148
- 2009 S.C. LEXIS 364
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- concluding evidence of the defendant’s continued illicit sexual abuse “prior to the indicted offenses constitutes the archetypal ‘common scheme or plan’ evidence”
- concluding evidence of the defendant’s continued illicit sexual abuse “prior to the indicted offenses constitutes the archetypal ‘common scheme or plan’ evidence”
- stating that to be admissible against a defendant in a criminal case, a prior \bad act must logically relate to the crime with which the defendant has been charged\
- reconsidering the entire record to ascertain probative value and, subsequently, comparing the evidence’s probative value to the danger of unfair prejudice
- requiring the balancing test of Rule 403 to consider all facts within the record
- stating \[t]he trial judge has considerable latitude in ruling on the admissibility of evidence and his decision should not be disturbed absent prejudicial abuse of discretion\ in reviewing the admissibility of evidence under Rule 404(b)
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Judges: Beatty, Toal, Waller, Pleicones, Kittredge
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