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315 S.C. 260

433 S.E.2d 848

State v. Hill

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided July 6, 1993

Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1993-07-06

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Decided 1993-07-06

How this case has been cited

Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Burriss (1999), State v. Burkhart (2002)

54 state decisions

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Chandler, Justice

¶1(dissenting):

¶2The majority asserts the record contains evidence that the defendant was in fear of imminent danger which she had no reasonable means of avoiding. To the contrary, the only details of the crime were presented through the testimony and statements of Rhonda Wideman, a former roommate of Hill. In her first statement Wideman explained why Victim attempted to disarm Hill, to wit: that, after Hill fired a shot in the air, Victim “went over there and said, T don’t want no one to get killed,’ she tried to get the gun, they wrestled for the gun.” It is clear that Victim’s motive in wrestling for the gun was not to injure Hill, but to prevent injuries to third parties.

¶3This being the only evidence regarding Victim’s state of mind, the record is devoid of any inference that Hill reasonably believed she was in imminent danger, or that she had no means of avoiding the danger. Accordingly, I would affirm.

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