South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

SIMPSONVILLE (AP) — The South Carolina city of Simpsonville and its police department are accused of allowing the destruction of DNA evidence in a decades old rape and slaying case. The Greenville News reports the lawsuit by Clovetta Johnson says ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Attorneys for a South Carolina father accused of killing his five children are carefully going over his full confession in court as they seek to prove their insanity case. Timothy Jones Jr.’s lawyers asked Lexington County Sheriff’s ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Teachers and almost all state workers are getting a raise in South Carolina’s $9 billion budget approved by both the House and Senate on May 21. The budget sets aside $160 million for raises for teachers, who ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — A former police chief of Columbia has been arrested for a third time in less than a year. The Florence County Sheriff’s Office deputies were alerted May 18 to a stolen vehicle near a Timmonsville motel and connected ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s death row is getting its first new prisoner in more than five years after a jury sentenced a man to death for the shooting of a store clerk during a robbery. Jerome Jenkins did not ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge says a South Carolina political consultant can remain free until his trial on perjury charges. Richard Quinn Sr. was indicted last month on obstruction of justice and 11 perjury charges as part of an ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — Members of a committee have briefly met for the first time to hash out differences between the proposed South Carolina budget passed by the House and Senate. The conference committee met for less than 15 minutes on ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court has suspended the law license of the state’s former top federal prosecutor and law enforcement officer. The State Supreme Court issued an order Monday suspending the license of Reggie Lloyd and 19 other ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has shined an unusual light on its internal squabbling over the death penalty, with the justices making public more than 30 pages of arguments on issues they decided weeks ago. The high court almost ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided May 13 that one state cannot unwillingly be sued in the courts of another, overruling a 40-year precedent and perhaps, foreshadowing an argument over the viability of other high court decisions. The outcome ...