State v. Williams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating the admission of evidence requiring a chain of custody is discretionary with the trial judge and will not be reversed absent an abuse of that discretion
• upholding the admissibility of a blood test even though a nurse who drew the blood from the defendant did not testify at trial; hospital forms completed by the absent nurse and testimony from the other evidence custodians sufficiently established a chain of custody
• party offering drugs into evidence must establish a chain of custody as far as practicable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Sweet
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2007-06-11· cited 46×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Cochran
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-06-06· cited 45×
• State v. Cribb
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-12-14· cited 34×
• Stevens v. Allen
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-12-14· cited 28×
• South Carolina Dept. of Social Services v. Cochran
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-11-24· cited 26×
• State v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-06-24· cited 23×
• State v. Horton
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-04-06· cited 23×
• State v. Joseph
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-08-18· cited 22×
• State v. Tanner
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-11-06· cited 21×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1995-03-27· cited 21×
• Raino v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-08-31· cited 18×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-03-10· cited 16×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-05-29· cited 12×
• State v. Glenn
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-09-19· cited 10×
• State v. Wells
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1992-12-29· cited 7×
• State v. Priester
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-01-22· cited 5×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-01-08· cited 2×
• State v. Hatcher
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-08-05· cited 1×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schmerber v. California
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 6,067×
• Cupp v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 739×
• Benton Ex Rel. Benton v. Pellum
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1957-11-13· cited 53×
• State v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-02-04· cited 39×
• Sligh ex rel. Estate of Murphy v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1986-03-24· cited 2×