State v. Jones

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• stating \the law in South Carolina is settled: behavioral characteristics of sex abuse victims is an area of specialized knowledge where expert testimony may be utilized\
• noting in a delayed disclosure case involving criminal sexual conduct, whether the subject matter requires expert testimony is best left to the trial court's \sense of what knowledge is commonly held by the average juror\
• affirming the trial court's qualification of an expert in child sex abuse dynamics and stating, \the law in South Carolina is settled: behavioral characteristics of sex abuse victims is an area of specialized knowledge where expert testimony may be utilized\
• \Trial courts are tasked only with determining whether the basis for the expert's opinion is sufficiently reliable such that it [may be] offered into evidence.\
• \[T]he law in South Carolina is settled: behavioral characteristics of sex[ual] abuse victims is an area of specialized knowledge where expert testimony may be utilized.\
• \The admissibility of an expert's testimony is a matter within the trial court's sound discretion and the determination will not be reversed on appeal absent an abuse of discretion.\

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Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2019-09-04
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  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2019-12-11
• State of Missouri v. Lewis C. Marshall
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2020-02-25
• State v. Warner
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2020-04-01
• In the Matter of the Care and Treatment of Richard Ridley
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2021-03-03
• State v. Acker
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2022-01-05
• State v. Richard Kenneth Galloway
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2022-04-06
• State v. Jaron Gibbs
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2023-01-04
• State v. Tammy C. Moorer
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2023-06-07
• State v. Tammy C. Moorer
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2023-07-05
• State v. Tyrone Wallace
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2023-08-30
• State v. Charles Dent
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2023-11-01
• State v. Richard K. Galloway
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2024-07-31
• State v. Rowland
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2024-08-07
• Jeane Whitfield v. Dennis K. Schimpf
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-01-08

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mu'Min v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 804×
• Rosales-Lopez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-04-21· cited 771×
• State v. Council
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-04-05· cited 157×
• State v. Kromah
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-01-23· cited 94×
• State v. Green
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-03-19· cited 89×
• Watson v. Ford Motor Co.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2010-09-13· cited 86×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2009-04-27· cited 85×
• State v. Collins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2014-08-20· cited 79×
• State v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1998-12-22· cited 60×
• State v. Chavis
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2015-02-04· cited 60×
• State v. Cope
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-08-28· cited 40×
• Maybank v. BB&T Corp.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-06-03· cited 37×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2015-08-05· cited 28×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-01-07· cited 24×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2016-07-20· cited 8×