Supreme Court of South Carolina· 7/23/2001

Tucker v. Catoe

Citations

552 S.E.2d 712
346 S.C. 483
2001 S.C. LEXIS 124

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concluding Allen charge violated defendant's due process rights when the charge, when viewed as a whole, was impermissibly directed at minority jurors
recognizing as improper the judge's failure to prevent the jury's self-reporting of its numerical division
holding, in a capital case, that the United States Supreme Court in Lowenfield v. Phelps, 484 U.S. 231 (1988) set the standard by which to judge a constitutional claim regarding an Allen charge
holding reasonable deliberation was \not simply an elapsed-time dependent determination\
providing the following factors to consider in determining whether an Allen charge is unconstitutionally coercive: (1) whether the charge spoke specifically to the minority juror(s); (2
finding the fact that the jury returned a verdict approximately an hour and a half after receiving the Allen charge tended to prove the charge was coercive

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Judges: Toal, Moore, Waller, Burnett, Pleicones

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