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← 317 S.C. 430 - State v. Cason

State v. Cason’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
January 2003
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Rosales-Lopez v. United States · Ham v. South Carolina · Ristaino v. Ross · Turner v. Murray · Robinson v. Howell

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “was offensive, it did not inextricably inject race into the trial and was used to show the defendants state of mind, not that race was a motive for the crime). ¶ 44. In Cason , the South Carolina Supreme Court analyzed the testimony of the defendant's use of a racial epithet in describing the murder victim, not in the context of admissibility but rather in the context of jury voir dire to ameliorate any undue prejudice. Id. That Court reasoned that a specific voir dire question designed to reveal racial prejudices on the part of the juror is required only when a”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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