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← 355 S.C. 493 - State v. Tufts

State v. Tufts’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2008
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Schumpert · State v. Nelson · State v. Melcher · Samples v. Mitchell · State v. Mueller

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “In Nelson , the offered evidence and the defendant’s statements were relevant only to prove that the defendant was a pedophile. The fact that the defendant was a pedophile spoke only to his propensity to commit the charged offense, and evidence thereof was thus inadmissible. In the present case, however, Tufts’s statements were not admitted to show his character; instead, they were admitted as a confession to the specific crime charged.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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