A sheriff’s office in South Carolina says a woman told deputies she threw bleach into her boyfriend’s eyes on a dare. The State reports 56-year-old Barbara Davis told deputies she was cleaning during a New Year’s Day argument with her ...
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Read More »BISHOPVILLE (AP) Authorities say a South Carolina prison guard has been charged with assault and battery after he stomped on a handcuffed inmate. An arrest warrant said Antonio Burns attacked the inmate April 28 at Lee Correctional Institution — the ...
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Read More »YORK (AP) Three inmates have been arrested after a guard was attacked at a South Carolina jail. A police report says a guard at the York County jail was shoved and threatened about 7:30 p.m. March 17. The report says ...
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Read More »City of Columbia v. Assa’ad-Faltas (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-035-17, 18 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Richland County Circuit Court (Alison Renee Lee, J.) S.C. S.Ct. Holding: Although appellant raised a passing complaint about her trial counsel during a lengthy diatribe ...
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Read More »SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — An Inman man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a 10-year-old girl. According to a statement from 7th Circuit Solicitor Barry Barnette, 44-year-old Cecil Quinn Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday ...
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Read More »U.S. v. Alfaro (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-139-16, 20 pp.) (Traxler, J.) No. 15-4102, Aug. 29, 2016; USDC at Greenbelt, Md. (Grimm, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: In sentencing defendant, a Salvadoran native, for illegal re-entry into the U.S., the district court ...
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Read More »The courts have not yet recognized the “holiday crazies” as a valid defense to erratic behavior, and that’s a very good thing — people don’t need any more excuses to act a fool during this hectic time of the year.
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Read More »State v. Larmand (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-098-15, 7 pp.) (Jean Hoefer Toal, C.J.) (Costa Pleicones, J., concurring in the result only without separate opinion) Appealed from York County Circuit Court (William Seals Jr., J.) On writ of certiorari to the ...
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Read More »U.S. v. Briley (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-177-14, 26 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 13-4831, Oct. 22, 2014; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (O’Grady, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A defendant who engaged in sustained physical resistance to being arrested by U.S. Park Police ...
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Read More »Former South Carolina and NFL running back Harold Green II has been arrested on charges of assaulting five female high school students.
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