Underwood v. State

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

• finding where trial counsel articulates a valid reason for employing a certain trial strategy, such conduct will not be deemed ineffective assistance
• finding an applicant failed to establish prejudice where he did not offer witnesses at PCR hearing but merely alleged they would have provided him with an alibi defense and testified victims had recanted their trial testimony
• where applicant did not offer witnesses at PCR hearing but merely alleged they would have provided him with alibi defense and testified victims had recanted their trial testimony, he failed to establish prejudice
• where applicant did not offer witnesses at PCR hearing but merely alleged they would have provided him with alibi defense and testified victims had recanted their trial testimony, he failed to establish prejudice
• expert testimony regarding “common profile” of people who sexually abuse children admissible because it was offered to explain physical injuries of victim as opposed to “personality or character traits which petitioner possessed in order to identify him as the offender”
• expert testimony regarding \common profile\ of people who sexually abuse children admissible because it was offered to explain physical injuries of victim as opposed to \personality or character traits which petitioner possessed in order to identify him as the offender\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-01-27· cited 82×
• State v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-04-06· cited 55×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-06-19· cited 42×
• Bannister v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-12-14· cited 21×
• Roseboro v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-01-23· cited 18×
• Charles Vandross v. Bryan Stirling
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-01-26· cited 15×
• State v. Huckabee
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2017-03-15· cited 8×
• Legare v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-12-14· cited 7×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-10-05· cited 7×
• Padgett v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-04-07· cited 6×
• Dalton v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-12-18· cited 5×
• Stalk v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-10-05· cited 2×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-12-04· cited 215×
• State v. Hudnall
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-08-03· cited 38×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-02-25· cited 19×
• State v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-12-09· cited 17×