Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2/13/2013

State v. Rivera

Citations

402 S.C. 225
741 S.E.2d 694
2013 WL 518629
2013 S.C. LEXIS 23

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stating that once an issue is dispositive, an appellate court does not need to address any remaining arguments
declaring a criminal defendant's right to testify is a well-established right in South Carolina
differentiating between structural errors and trial errors subject to harmless error review
\[A] trial court's improper refusal to permit a defendant to testify . . . is not amenable to harmless-error analysis.\
\[A] trial court's improper refusal to permit a defendant to testify ... is not amenable to harmless-error analysis.\
\it is difficult to fathom anything more logically connected to the fundamental issue\ in a case \than a defendant's own testimony about the [crime]\

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Judges: Beatty, Hearn, Kittredge, Pleicones, Toal

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