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State v. White

Citations

  • 428 S.E.2d 740
  • 311 S.C. 289
  • 1993 S.C. App. LEXIS 44

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  • holding the fact that defendant had been administered sodium pentothal and was strapped to his bed was only a circumstance the trial court had to consider in determining voluntariness
  • finding a statement voluntary when the defendant was under medication and in restraints, but was responsive and gave coherent answers to questions
  • using defendant’s inculpatory statements to prove corpus delicti; finding the statements were not confessions
  • precise questions of whether defendant drove motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs were properly left to the jury as factfinders

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Goolsby, Cureton, Littlejohn

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