South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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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Solicitor Dan Johnson, chief law enforcement official in two Midlands counties, is out of a job, dethroned by a Columbia lawyer, Byron Gipson, who has never held public office. Just weeks ago, Johnson was seemingly a lock to win the ...

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  Square dancing’s time is up, according to a teacher’s assistant in North Charleston who’s trying to replace the state’s official folk dance. KJ Kearney has started a petition on Change.org in an effort to convince lawmakers to boot square ...

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Anyone who follows politics is aware that there is a certain amount of shade—even criminality—that one can engage in and still be elected (and re-elected) to office. But if apparent allegations are true against an aspiring Upstate congressman, he might ...

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The owners of about 71,000 winning lottery tickets are feeling significantly less cheery after lottery officials said May 30 that they will not pay out the $35 million in prizes won during a Christmas day glitch. The glitch occurred during ...

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It’s been about a year since South Carolina was featured in a worst-of list—or at least since we saw such a list—but it’s happened yet again. This time the Palmetto State has the dubious distinction of being one of the ...

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Recently, in an effort to combat contraband, the South Carolina Department of Corrections supplemented its undermanned workforce by sprinkling the perimeters of some of its prisons with state guardsmen. The volunteers added eyes and ears to an agency desperate to ...

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For many college students, a study abroad program is a dream opportunity, but one University of South Carolina alumna has filed a lawsuit alleging that a professor subjected her to nightmarish mistreatment during a trip to Italy. Allison Dunavant says ...

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DotSucks has been stirring things up since at least 2015, when Fortune magazine called it “the most controversial domain name on the internet.” Back then, the company behind www.get.sucks, Vox Populi Registry Ltd., was making headlines for selling .sucks website ...

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With all the controversy and tragedy surrounding the South Carolina Department of Corrections recently, it’s about time a little bit of lighthearted news escape its communications office. So, cue the passionate melodies and sexual jingles because the most recent report ...

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