Legal Opinion
Yates v. Evatt
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided August 2, 1991No. 89-7691PublishedCited by 826 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
delivered the opinion of the Court. †
This murder case comes before us for the third time, to review a determination by the Supreme Court of South Carolina that instructions allowing the jury to apply unconstitutional presumptions were harmless error. We hold that the State Supreme Court employed a deficient standard of review, find that the errors were not harmless, and reverse.
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Petitioner, Dale Robert Yates, and an accomplice, Henry Davis, robbed a country store in Greenville County, South Carolina. After shooting and wounding the proprietor, petitioner fled. Davis then killed a woman…
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