Legal Opinion
Bowman v. State
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided January 10, 2018No. Appellate Case 2012-213468; Opinion 27761PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JUSTICE KITTREDGE :
**23 Petitioner Marion Bowman sought post-conviction relief (PCR) from his sentence of death for the murder of Kandee Martin in February of 2001. The essence of Petitioner's claim is that trial counsel was deficient in failing to object to the State's cross-examination of prison-adaptability expert James Aiken. The PCR court denied Petitioner's application. We issued a writ of certiorari to review the order of the PCR court. We conclude there is evidence to support the PCR court's findings, and we affirm.
*235 I.
Around 7:55 p.m. the evening of February 16, 2001, a motorist was…
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