State v. Slater

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• holding appellant was not entitled to a self-defense charge where the record showed the defendant was the first aggressor and was, therefore not without fault in bringing on the difficulty
• stating \the [ Burriss accident] analysis is equally applicable in determining if a defendant in unlawful possession of a weapon is entitled to a charge on self-defense\
• stating the mere unlawful possession of a firearm, with nothing more, does not automatically bar a self-defense charge, but rejecting the position that the unlawful possession of a weapon could never constitute an unlawful activity that would preclude the assertion of self-defense
• “To establish self-defense in South Carolina, four elements must be present: (1) the defendant must be without fault in bringing on the difficulty; (2
• “Any act of the accused in violation of law and reasonably calculated to produce the occasion amounts to bringing on the difficulty and bars the right to assert self-defense.” (quoting State v. Bryant, 336 S.C. 340, 345, 520 S.E.2d 319, 322 (1999))
• Shearouse Adv. Sh. No. 13 at 31

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Light
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-07-14· cited 39×
• State v. Douglas
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2014-12-23· cited 38×
• State v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-06-03· cited 30×
• State v. Wigington
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-07-26· cited 13×
• In Re Tracy B.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2010-12-20· cited 13×
• State v. Rivera
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2010-09-07· cited 12×
• State v. Dickey
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2008-10-29· cited 10×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2019-06-19· cited 8×
• State v. Washington
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2018-08-08· cited 7×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2013-08-28· cited 2×
• State v. Frazier
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2013-01-02· cited 1×
• State v. Marshall
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2019-08-07
• State v. Plumer
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2021-03-03
• State v. Lance Antonio Brewton
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2022-05-04
• State v. Jason E. Stoots
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-01-23

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Burriss
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-02-16· cited 97×
• State v. Goodson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-01-17· cited 46×
• State v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-08-16· cited 39×
• State v. Muller
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-05-25· cited 12×
• State v. Slater
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-08-09· cited 6×