STATE v. MEKLER

No. 4035.

368 S.C. 1 (2005)

626 S.E.2d 890

The STATE, Respondent, v. Jacqueline MEKLER, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided October 31, 2005.

Withdrawn, Substituted, and Refiled December 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Attorney General Melody J. Brown, all of Columbia; and Solicitor David Michael Pascoe, Jr., of St. Matthews, for Respondent.


HUFF, J.:

In this criminal case, Jacqueline Mekler appeals following her conviction for murder. Mekler asserts the trial judge erred in (1) refusing to allow her to impeach one of the State's witnesses, the deceased's wife, with evidence that the witness expressed fear of the deceased after a domestic dispute when the witness denied she was ever afraid of the victim; (2) refusing to allow evidence appellant was aware of the deceased's prior act of violence against...

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