State v. McGuire

How courts have described this case

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

• holding, under the narrow circumstances of the case, the trial court erred in refusing to allow the cross-examination of a witness about previously admitted crimes
• reversing a conviction and remanding for a new trial where, among other things, the trial court erred by refusing to allow the defendant to impeach the credibility of a witness critical to the State's case
• reversing a conviction and remanding for a new trial where, among other things, the trial court erred by refusing to allow the defendant to impeach the credibility of a witness critical to the State’s case
• a witness may be impeached by past conduct which fairly tends to affect her credibility if the questioner has a good-faith basis for asking the question
• a witness may be impeached by past conduct which fairly tends to affect her credibility if the questioner has a good faith basis for asking the question
• witnesses should avoid mentioning polygraph examinations; however, if it is mentioned, the trial judge should be meticulous to see that no improper inference is created by the testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 388×
• State v. Kelsey
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-06-08· cited 143×
• State v. Gunn
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1993-09-23· cited 77×
• State v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-07-01· cited 70×
• State v. Gaskins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-01-22· cited 58×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-02-08· cited 56×
• State v. Aldret
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-01-04· cited 49×
• State v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-07-21· cited 36×
• Gallman v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-02-24· cited 28×
• State v. McEachern
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2012-06-06· cited 26×
• State v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-10-27· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Kerpan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-25· cited 23×
• State v. Joseph
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-08-18· cited 22×
• Cruz v. Workers Compensation Appeal Board
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-21· cited 22×
• State v. Pace
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-07-05· cited 19×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2007-12-17· cited 18×
• State v. Gill
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1979-05-24· cited 13×
• State v. Pressley
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-10-13· cited 12×
• State v. Outlaw
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-02-10· cited 9×
• State v. Joyner
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-07-21· cited 8×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• State v. BRITT
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1959-12-17· cited 61×