South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Tommie Rae Brown has secured another legal victory in her effort to prove that her marriage to legendary soul singer James Brown was the real deal. “I feel good,” quipped her Charleston-based attorney, Robert Rosen, after the South Carolina ...

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Sporting an “Explorer” badge and a pistol while driving a car decked out with a siren, blue lights, a PA system, and a North Carolina license plate, a 21-year-old cop impersonator tried to pull over a motorcyclist in South Carolina ...

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  Paramedics typically don’t moonlight as crime scene reconstruction experts. But an EMT’s total lack of forensics training did not stop a trial judge from allowing her to testify about the location of a victim’s body, which undermined the defendant’s ...

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  When it comes to addressing the annoying and pervasive presence of potholes, South Carolina apparently prefers a reactive approach—instead of actually fixing the potholes, the state would rather pay for the damage that the pavement pockmarks cause to vehicles. ...

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Some doors are best left closed, especially when you’re a meth dealer and the handle you’re reaching for is attached to a unmarked vehicle packed with drug enforcement agents and their K-9. Despite the fact that the police dog was ...

Tagged with: Methamphetamine

Answers that prospective jurors offer while being questioned during the voir dire process can reveal potential biases or hang-ups that might make them unfit to serve on a jury. But trial judges should never use those answers to gauge the ...

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The new owner of Avvo.com, one of the top players in the online legal marketplace, has put the kibosh on the company’s fixed-rate legal services—just as a North Carolina State Bar committee was working on an ethics opinion concerning whether ...

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While on trial for attacking his wife with a barbecue fork after downing moonshine, a Laurens County man opened the door for prosecutors to inform jurors that he was convicted of murder when he was a teen, the South Carolina ...

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  A South Carolina county’s alleged failure to follow the law has led to the undoing of the forced tax sale of a home, which happened without the owner’s knowledge. The homeowner, Corretta McMillan, paid some of the property taxes ...

Tagged with: taxes

The moonshine defense didn’t work. A man who claimed that laced homemade liquor caused him to blackout before he went berserk and stabbed his wife with a barbecue fork has failed to convince the South Carolina Court of Appeals that ...

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