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7 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 77 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Mattison.

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1 State v. Mattison Anchor
sc · 2010
green “an appellate court will not reverse the trial court's decision regarding a jury charge absent an abuse of discretion.” 18
2 State v. Adkins
scctapp · 2003
green “in reviewing jury charges for error, we must consider the court's jury charge as a whole in light of the evidence and issues presented at trial.” 16
3 State v. Adkins
scctapp · 2003
green “a jury charge is correct if, when the charge is read as a whole, it contains the correct definition and adequately covers the law.” 14
4 State v. Mattison
sc · 2010
green “to warrant reversal, a trial court's refusal to give a requested jury charge must be both erroneous and prejudicial to the defendant.” 10
5 State v. Adkins
scctapp · 2003
green “the substance of the law is what must be charged to the jury, not any particular verbiage.” 8
6 State v. McBride
scctapp · 2016
green “adverse inference charges are rarely permitted in criminal cases.” 6
7 State v. Austin
sc · 1989
green “a request to charge a correct statement of the law on an issue raised by the indictment and the evidence presented at trial should not be refused.” 5

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