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285 S.C. 130

State v. Hoffman

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided April 5, 1985

Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1985-04-05

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1993

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Decided 1985-04-05

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Per Curiam:

¶1Appellant appeals his armed robbery conviction. We affirm.

¶2During the trial, the prosecution elicited testimony regarding an oral statement made by the appellant shortly after his arrest. Appellant contends that this testimony should have been excluded because the oral statement had not been disclosed to the defense under Circuit Court Rule 103.

¶3Under Rule 103, the prosecution must disclose “the substance of any oral statement which the prosecution intends to offer in evidence at the trial made by the defendant whether before or after arrest in response to interrogation by any person then known to the defendant to be a prosecution agent.”

¶4*131The oral statement in this case was not made in response to interrogation. Therefore, the prosecution was not required to disclose the statement under Rule 103, and no error was committed in allowing the contested testimony.

¶5The same result has been reached by federal courts applying Rule 16 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure on which Rule 103 is based. United States v. Reeves, 730 F. (2d) 1189 (8th Cir. 1984); United States v. Von Stoll, 726 F. (2d) 584 (9th Cir. 1984); United States v. Navar, 611 F. (2d) 1156 (5th Cir. 1980).

¶6Finding the allegation of error to be without merit, the judgment of the lower court is

¶7Affirmed.

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