State v. Justus

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the circuit court’s removal of defense counsel due to a conflict of interest
• upholding a death sentence as proportional where the defendant, who was serving two life sentences for murdering two convenience store clerks during separate armed robberies, stabbed another inmate eleven times, including a fatal wound to the heart
• \[A] motion to relieve counsel is addressed to the discretion of the trial judge and will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion.\ (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Cottrell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-12-20· cited 12×
• Osbey v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2019-03-06· cited 11×
• Pascoe v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-07-13· cited 5×
• Hines v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2021-12-01
• Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2022-04-06
• Justus v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 2012-01-17

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• State v. Atkins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-10-08· cited 36×
• State v. Blair
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-01-05· cited 29×
• State v. Graddick
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-06-04· cited 22×
• State v. Gregory
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-04-18· cited 15×
• State v. Motts
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-03-21· cited 7×