State v. Dunlap

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that when a prior crime is similar to the one for which the defendant is being tried, the danger of unfair prejudice to the defendant from impeachment by the prior offense weighs against its admission
• holding defense counsel’s opening statement “opened the door to the introduction of evidence rebutting the contention that [defendant] was merely an addict”
• finding that evidence of prior drug convictions was properly allowed to rebut false impression made by counsel in opening statement
• holding defense counsel’s opening statement “opened the door to the introduction of evidence rebutting the contention that [defendant] was merely an addict”
• finding that where defense ‘opened the door’ by claiming that the defendant had no connection to the sale of drugs, the state was entitled to rebut that claim by delving into the defendant’s drug record
• holding a criminal defendant's opening statement, which created the impression he had no prior connection to the sale of narcotics, opened the door to the introduction of evidence rebutting the contention that the defendant was merely an addict

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Waller
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2003-10-30· cited 95×
• State v. Page
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2008-04-03· cited 36×
• STALK v. Rice
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-10-05· cited 32×
• State v. Foster
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-06-12· cited 27×
• State v. Elmore
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-02-21· cited 17×
• State v. Young
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-05-02· cited 16×
• State v. Young
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-05-19· cited 15×
• State v. Jonathan S. Ostrowski
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2021-11-03
• Wilton Q. Greene v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2023-06-07

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Aleksey
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-11-13· cited 111×
• State v. Colf
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-01-04· cited 78×
• State v. Locklair
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-06-26· cited 49×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-01-24· cited 31×
• State v. Dunlap
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-07-02· cited 22×
• Edmond v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-06-26· cited 21×