Von Dohlen v. State

Justice BURNETT:

We granted the petition for a writ of certiorari from Herman Henry “Bud” Von Dohlen (Petitioner) to consider whether the post-conviction relief (PCR) judge erred in denying Petitioner’s request for a new sentencing proceeding. We reverse and grant Petitioner a new sentencing proceeding.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Petitioner, then age 35, averred in a signed confession to law enforcement investigators that he walked from the Berkeley County pawnshop he managed to a nearby dry cleaning shop to ask for change the morning of May 28, 1990. He stated shop employee Margaret McLean…