State v. Donahue Nothing in the language of S.C. Code Ann. § 16-11-313(B) limits a circuit court to considering only S.C. offenses when deciding whether to treat a third-degree burglary defendant as a repeat offender.

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PICKENS (AP) — Pickens County sheriff's deputies say they have put a stop to a pair of women who burglarized homes in a half-dozen counties across South Carolina. Investigators said 41-year-old Brenda Branham was arrested in Pickens County and 53-year-old Carolyn Rodriguez was arrested in Horry County.

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State v. Meggett At the beginning of his trial -- nearly two years after he was arrested and seven months after he was notified that the case would be placed on the trial docket -- defendant moved for a continuance so he could have a comforter tested for two-year-old DNA. Defendant made no showing that the comforter had not been cleaned or used by anyone else in the interim. Based on defendant’s inaction in attempting to obtain the comforter prior to requesting a continuance and the lack of evidence supporting his contention that the comforter still contained important evidence, we find the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s motion for a continuance.

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State v. Meggett At the beginning of his trial -- nearly two years after he was arrested and seven months after he was notified that the case would be placed on the trial docket -- defendant moved for a continuance so he could have a comforter tested for two-year-old DNA.

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State v. Odems Where the state’s circumstantial evidence showed only that (1) when stopped by a sheriff’s deputy, defendant was in the vehicle used by Derrick Dawkins and Frederick Bell to leave the scene of a robbery 90 minutes earlier and (2) following the stop, defendant fled along with Dawkins and Bell, the state’s evidence does not reasonably tend to prove defendant’s guilt. We reverse the Court of Appeals’ decision affirming defendant’s convictions of first-degree burglary, grand larceny, criminal conspiracy and malicious injury.

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State v. Singleton Even though the victim’s first statement to the police did not mention that she recognized one of the burglars, the trial court did not err in allowing her to make an in-court identification of him. We affirm defendant’s conviction of first-degree burglary and criminal conspiracy.

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U.S. v. Baxter A defendant's 1976 burglary conviction under Virginia law qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act, and the 4th Circuit upholds his mandatory minimum sentence of 180 months on a conviction of possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.

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State v. Singley. Even though defendant had a 12.5 percent ownership interest in his mother's home, he did not live there, so he could be convicted of burglarizing the home. We affirm the trial court's . . .

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