Legal Opinion
State v. Evans
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
Decided June 12, 2000No. 3187PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CURETON, Judge:
A Chesterfield County grand jury indicted Florence Robinson Evans for the murder of her three children.1 At a pretrial hearing, the trial court suppressed Evans’s oral and written confessions. The State appeals. We affirm.
FACTS
On the morning of March 4, 1994, a fire destroyed the Pageland trailer-home of Evans and killed her three small children. Evans survived as she was visiting her sister’s nearby home at the time of the fire. Later that day, arson investigator Terry Alexander of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) obtained Evans’s permission to search the…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- State v. EvansSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2003
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