South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where an inmate who had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cocaine-related crimes provided “substantial assistance” to the government, he was entitled to have a pleading about his efforts sealed and removed from online research services. There was a heightened risk ...

A defendant charged with federal illegal reentry from Mexico pleaded guilty to a crime committed during his prior presence in the U.S. The guilty plea waived his right to assert that a six-year delay between the charge and his plea ...

Where the government opted to not make an initial closing argument, it should not have been allowed to make a rebuttal closing argument after the defendant’s closing. But because the defendant did not show he was prejudiced by the altered ...

Even though the plaintiff-contractor now asserts that its work continued longer, it is bound by the dates asserted in its complaint and on the face of the mechanic’s lien it filed. Where the lien and complaint assert that the contractor ...

While he was on parole, appellant continued to serve his sentence outside the prison walls and remained in legal custody; consequently, he should receive credit towards the remainder of his re-activated sentence for the time he was on parole. However, ...

Even though respondent paid significantly more for the parties’ condominium in Hilton Head, since appellant contributed $22,000 towards the purchase of the condo, the master-in-equity should have awarded appellant a percentage of the equity in the condo. We modify and ...

Although Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015), applies retroactively, our state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage constituted an impediment to the formation of a common-law marriage until that impediment was removed. Since the parties separated before the impediment was ...

In support of its Rule 60, SCRCP, motion for a new trial based on juror misconduct, the defendant-city failed to present sufficient evidence that (1) the juror was in fact disqualified by his failure to mention a prior arrest, (2) ...

An arbitrator must decide whether, when plaintiff financed a car at a dealership in 2011, the arbitration agreement she signed at that time requires her to arbitrate a dispute that arose in 2015 when she declined a dealership salesman’s pitch ...

Where (1) the state’s evidence of voluntary manslaughter was almost exclusively circumstantial; (2) the state’s own witness testified that it was plausible the fatal wound could have been caused by the victim charging defendant, exactly as plaintiff testified; and defendant ...