State v. Woods

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a court may infer that a juror who intentionally conceals information inquired into is not impartial
• concluding “a juror’s previous three year relationship as a victims’ advocate with the prosecuting solicitor’s office would be a material factor in the use of a criminal defendant’s peremptory challenges”
• holding “intentional concealment occurs when the question presented to the jury on voir dire is reasonably comprehensible to the average juror” and “[unintentional concealment ... occurs where the question posed is ambiguous or incomprehensible to the average juror”
• explaining trial court ruled on new trial motion alleging juror concealment after holding an evidentiary hearing during which the juror testified
• explaining trial court ruled on new trial motion alleging juror concealment after holding an evidentiary hearing during which the juror testified
• stating juror testified at evidentiary hearing she worked as a volunteer in the solicitor’s office that prosecuted the case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Stone
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-07-15· cited 28×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-08-03· cited 27×
• State v. Bixby
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2010-08-16· cited 26×
• State v. Galbreath
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-06-01· cited 21×
• State v. Bell
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-06-04· cited 16×
• State v. Coaxum
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2014-10-08· cited 16×
• State v. Sparkman
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2004-05-03· cited 13×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-02-06· cited 13×
• State v. Burgess
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2010-12-15· cited 12×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2007-12-10· cited 10×
• State v. Guillebeaux
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-12-20· cited 9×
• State v. Tucker
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2018-04-18· cited 8×
• Lynch v. Carolina Self Storage Centers, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2014-03-26· cited 6×
• State v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2012-05-23· cited 2×
• Hassell v. City of Columbia
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2020-07-01
• State v. Rowell
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2021-07-07
• State v. Rowell
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2021-08-04
• State v. Adam Rowell
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2022-03-02
• State v. Michael Cliff Eubanks
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2022-08-03
• State v. Adam Rowell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2024-07-17

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams Ex Rel. Wilford v. Barnes Hospital
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-07-14· cited 96×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-04-17· cited 71×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-06-29· cited 68×
• Abofreka v. Alston Tobacco Co.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-03-11· cited 38×
• State v. Gulledge
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1982-02-16· cited 32×
• Thompson Ex Rel. Estate of Thompson v. O'Rourke
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-01-06· cited 26×
• State v. Savage
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1991-10-07· cited 10×
• Doyle v. Kennedy Heating & Service, Inc.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2000-11-07· cited 10×
• State v. Loftis
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1957-11-14· cited 7×
• State v. Woods
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2000-01-24· cited 5×