Legal Opinion
Harris v. State
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided March 10, 2008No. 26458PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Justice BEATTY:
In this post-conviction relief (PCR) case, the Court granted the State’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review the PCR judge’s decision granting relief with respect to Patrick Delvon Harris’s conviction for armed robbery and sentence of imprisonment for life without parole (LWOP). We reverse.
FACTS
At approximately 12:00 a.m. on March 26, 1998, Jessie Brown and Kevin Outen, employees with Park Place Video in Columbia, observed an African-American male walk through the video poker establishment and leave after staying only a few minutes. Both employees believed the man was…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Franklin v. Maynard, Director, South Carolina Department of CorrectionsSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Wilmer Lane Easter v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Caprood v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2000
- Sheppard v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2004
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3Cited by4 opinions
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- Smith v. StateCourt of Appeals of South Carolina · 2012