State v. Travis Latrell Lawrence
Syllabus
Petitioner was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to thirty years in prison. The court of appeals affirmed his conviction on appeal. This Court affirms the opinion of the court of appeals as modified and concludes that the Petitioner's co-defendant faced a hazard of self-incrimination to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination. The Court clarifies that trial courts should not allow \blanket\ invocations of the Fifth Amendment and both counsel for the witness and the party calling the witness should be present at the in camera examination.
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- noting that we have never held that the distinction between purposeful direction and availment is “a hard-and-fast rule”
- noting that “remote actions taken to service a 14 contract in the forum state seldom lead to purposeful availment by themselves”
- stating that “there’s no need to adhere to an iron-clad doctrinal dichotomy 28 to analyze specific jurisdiction” and “to the extent Cranfield argues that we should only review Appellants’ tort claims under the purposeful direction test, we disagree”
- explaining there is no “hard-and-fast rule” and the 16 first prong “may be satisfied by purposeful availment,” “by purposeful direction,” or “by some 17 combination thereof”
- typically the purposeful availment analysis applies in suits sounding in contract and the purposeful direction analysis in tort, although is not “a hard-and-fast rule”
- “[W]hen considering specific jurisdiction, courts should comprehensively evaluate the extent of the defendant’s contacts with the forum state and those contacts’ relationship to the plaintiffs’ claims—which may mean looking at both purposeful availment and purposeful direction.”
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