South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By Heather Cobun BridgeTower Media Newswires Attorneys for a Baltimore law firm are asking a federal appeals court to prohibit prosecutors from reviewing “tens of thousands” of electronic files seized from a partner’s office earlier this year. The Baltimore Sun ...

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  A promising new technology that can unlock the identity of long-sought criminal suspects and free the wrongly convicted is raising questions about whether it might become too intrusive. In Virginia, a judge recently considered whether creation of a DNA ...

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A small group of South Carolina senators held a daylong hearing Tuesday on whether South Carolina should join about a half-dozen other states in banning nearly all abortions , but the Southern state might not be ready to follow some ...

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Turner Padget has announced the formation of a government relations and public policy service with the addition of attorneys Edward J. Schafer and James F. Knox in the firm’s Columbia office. Schafer joins the firm as of counsel and is ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Using technology to run her practice lets defense attorney Susan Williams give clients the time and attention they need. Williams decided years ago she didn’t want a large staff that would require her to increase her ...

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By ELANA SCHOR and JUANA SUMMERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Every top Democratic presidential contender is touting a detailed overhaul of the criminal justice system to end rules and practices that have been blamed for the mass incarceration of ...

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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is joining attorneys general from all 50 states in a bipartisan antitrust investigation into Google. The coalition of attorneys general will investigate Google’s control of online advertising markets and search traffic that may have ...

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Most mass shooters in the U.S. acquired the weapons they used legally because there was nothing in their backgrounds to disqualify them, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist with Northeastern University who has studied mass shootings for decades. But ...

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Ten states and nearly two dozen members of Congress are joining the National Rifle Association in supporting gun-maker Remington Arms as it fights a Connecticut court ruling involving liability for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Officials in the 10 ...

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A South Carolina man accused of raping and beating a woman on a trip to Maine has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping. The woman told investigators that Dustin Beach, of Green Pond, South Carolina, smashed her cellphone, raped her repeatedly, ...

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