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Daniel Coble
- Sep 20, 2021
Daniel Coble
- Aug 30, 2021
Crawford and the Sixth Amendment
The Sixth Amendment gives defendants the right to confront any witness that is being used against them. A Crawford issue arises when...
Daniel Coble
- Jul 12, 2021
Closed Circuit Testimony
In a sexual assault case, a child witness is not automatically prohibited from testifying via closed circuit video outside of the...
Daniel Coble
- Mar 31, 2021
Traffic Stops, Custody, and Miranda
In a recent S.C. Court of Appeals case, State v. Barksdale, the Court examined the issue of traffic stops, custody, and Miranda. In this...
Daniel Coble
- Apr 27, 2020
Bruton and non-testifying codefendant's statements inculpating other defendant
In a lengthy Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals case (United States v. Benson, No. 18-4539, 2020 WL 1966843 (4th Cir. Apr. 24, 2020)), the...
Daniel Coble
- Apr 9, 2020
Competency Evals in Summary Court
Under our Constitution, "a person who lacks the capacity to understand the nature and object of the proceedings against him, to consult...
Daniel Coble
- Apr 6, 2020
Big SCOTUS Fourth Amendment Case: Kansas v. Glover
The Supreme Court has handed down a case that analyzed reasonable suspicion and traffic stops. In Kansas v. Glover, an officer saw a...
Daniel Coble
- Mar 4, 2020
Unmarried Cohabitants and Workers' Comp (Is adultery/fornication statute constitutional?)
In a recent SC Supreme Court case, the court looked at who qualified as a "dependent" under the Workers' Comp Act. The decedent's mother...
Daniel Coble
- Feb 6, 2020
New DUI case in South Carolina
The S.C. Supreme Court recently handed down a case on DUI and exigent circumstances. The basic facts: a defendant crossed the yellow...
Daniel Coble
- Dec 12, 2019
Collateral Estoppel in Criminal Cases
What happens when a defendant is acquitted of one charge but hung on the other? Can the state prosecute the defendant again on the...
Daniel Coble
- Dec 6, 2019
Inevitable discovery doctrine & inventory searches
In a recent Fourth Circuit case (US v. Seay), the court had to analyze an exception to the warrant requirement: inevitable...
Daniel Coble
- Nov 26, 2019
Affidavit of Evidence vs. Affidavit of Authentication
The Federal Rules of Evidence speak about business records in two different rules: hearsay exception and self-authentication. The rules...
Daniel Coble
- Nov 22, 2019
Mandatory Minimums, Juveniles, & Miller/Montgomery/Malvo
The Supreme Court has a case before it now asking the Court to decide if discretionary life sentences for juveniles are constitutional....