Legal Opinion

State v. Freiburger

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided September 26, 2005No. 26042PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Justice WALLER:

This matter was certified to this Court from the Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 204, SCACR. Freiburger was convicted of the 1961 murder of a Columbia taxi-cab driver. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. We affirm.

FACTS

The victim in this case, John Orner, was a taxi-cab driver who regularly serviced soldiers at Fort Jackson in Columbia. Orner received his last dispatch call at 11:15 p.m. on the evening of February 28, 1961 to go to the NCO club at the fort. When he did not return home from his shift the next morning, his family reported him missing. Orner’s bloody cab was…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. Chimel v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. Whren v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  5. United States v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973

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3Cited by34 opinions

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  3. State v. GambleSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2013
  4. State v. LeeSupreme Court of Vermont · 2008
  5. State v. BrockmeyerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2013

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