context: See Rule 403, SCRE (stating that evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice). This evidence was highly prejudicial and not harmless.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 379 S.C. 26, 26
citation_a.parenthetical: noting the admission of prior bad act evidence when the offender was unsubstantiated was not harmless error because the identity of the perpetrator was the essential issue at trial
citation_a.sentence: See Fletcher, 379 S.C. at 26, 664 S.E.2d at 484 (noting the admission of prior bad act evidence when the offender was unsubstantiated was not harmless error because the identity of the perpetrator was the essential issue at trial); see also Northcutt, 372 S.C. at 218-19, 641 S.E.2d at 879 (reversing a death penalty conviction due to unfair prejudice pursuant to Rule 403, SCRE, when the trial court admitted evidence of the victim’s spiral leg fracture at age ten-weeks despite the fact that the prior injury was, by all accounts, an accident).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 641 S.E.2d 879, 879
citation_b.parenthetical: reversing a death penalty conviction due to unfair prejudice pursuant to Rule 403, SCRE, when the trial court admitted evidence of the victim's spiral leg fracture at age ten-weeks despite the fact that the prior injury was, by all accounts, an accident
citation_b.sentence: See Fletcher, 379 S.C. at 26, 664 S.E.2d at 484 (noting the admission of prior bad act evidence when the offender was unsubstantiated was not harmless error because the identity of the perpetrator was the essential issue at trial); see also Northcutt, 372 S.C. at 218-19, 641 S.E.2d at 879 (reversing a death penalty conviction due to unfair prejudice pursuant to Rule 403, SCRE, when the trial court admitted evidence of the victim’s spiral leg fracture at age ten-weeks despite the fact that the prior injury was, by all accounts, an accident).