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· 10/8/2014

State v. Coaxum

Citations

  • 410 S.C. 320
  • 764 S.E.2d 242
  • 2014 S.C. LEXIS 449

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding when there is an unintentional nondisclosure by a juror, the trial court must \consider how material the information would have been to the parties in exercising their peremptory challenges\
  • finding because the jury was indisputably impartial after the juror's removal, the defendant did not meet his burden for receiving a new trial
  • finding because the jury was indisputably impartial after the juror's removal, the defendant did not meet his burden for receiving a new trial
  • finding when the trial court removed a juror at the State's request after an unintentional nondisclosure, the defendant had to \show a prejudicial abuse of discretion\ to receive a new trial (emphasis added)
  • finding when the trial court removed a juror at the State's request after an unintentional nondisclosure, the defendant had to \show a prejudicial abuse of discretion\ to receive a new trial (emphasis added)
  • party claiming unintentional concealment must prove prejudice by showing potential bias and materiality to strike decision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Toal, Pleicones, Kittredge, Hearn, Moore

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