Supreme Court of South Carolina· 11/30/1992

State v. Smith

Citations

424 S.E.2d 496
309 S.C. 442
1992 S.C. LEXIS 234

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holding evidence of defendant’s prior drug use should have been excluded where it was unrelated to the crimes of murder and armed robbery and was not contemporaneous with the victim’s murder
holding exclusion of defendant’s nephew’s prior inconsistent statement constituted reversible error
“The [improperly admitted] ‘prior cocaine use’ testimony was so destructive to [the defendant’s] character, hence her credibility, that it cannot be held harmless error or cumulative.”
admission of testimony about prior drug use which likely destroyed defendant’s credibility, in a case where witness credibility was crucial to jury’s determination of who and what to believe, could not be deemed harmless error

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Judges: Chandler, Harwell, Finney, Moore, Toal

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