South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Apr 30, 2026

Attorney who led beagle farm raid says case will be ‘test for our legal system’

A judge found enough evidence to continue a criminal case against a California attorney accused of leading a break-in at a beagle breeding facility outside of Madison, Wisconsin in March. […]

Apr 30, 2026

Revocation sentence vacated for failure to address mitigation argument

A supervised release sentence was procedurally unreasonable where the U.S. District Court failed to address the defendant’s non-frivolous argument that he had effectively served an additional 19 months […]

Apr 28, 2026

South Carolina Senate blocks even a study of hate crime legislation

South Carolina will remain one of the few states in the country without a hate crime law after the state Senate failed to advance even a proposal to study such […]

Apr 24, 2026

U.S. soldier accused of pocketing $400K through bets on Maduro’s capture

Federal authorities on April 23 charged a Special Forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with using inside information about the raid to win roughly $400,000 […]

Apr 24, 2026

Clinical evidence supports renewed pornography ban on supervised release

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the reimposition of a pornography ban as a condition of supervised release, holding that new, individualized clinical evidence tied the […]

Apr 20, 2026

South Carolina Court of Appeals reverses murder convictions for denial of right to counsel

Defendant was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when the trial court required him to proceed pro se without providing timely and adequate warnings regarding the dangers of […]

Apr 16, 2026

Ambiguous notice and inadequate inquiry invalidate waiver of counsel at revocation hearing

The State failed to prove that the petitioner knowingly and voluntarily waived her right to counsel at a probation revocation hearing, where the notice form was ambiguous and the trial […]

Apr 15, 2026

New clinical evidence supports renewed pornography ban on supervised release

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the reimposition of a pornography ban as a condition of supervised release for a defendant convicted of transporting child sexual abuse material, […]

Apr 6, 2026

Supreme Court sides with Steve Bannon in bid to dismiss Jan. 6 conviction

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared a path for Stephen K. Bannon’s effort, backed by the Justice Department, to dismiss his conviction for defying a congressional subpoena related to the […]

Mar 30, 2026

‘Abscondment’ doesn’t toll term of supervised release, SCOTUS rules

A criminal defendant did not subject herself to an automatic extension of her term of supervised release by absconding after failing to report a change of residence to her probation […]

Nov 3, 2025

Judge rejects plea deal in Colorado funeral home case

A Colorado judge on Nov. 3 rejected the plea deal of a funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 190 decaying bodies in a bug-infested building after family members of the deceased […]

Oct 21, 2025

Can marijuana users legally own guns? SCOTUS to decide

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if regular marijuana users can legally own firearms, revisiting federal gun laws after its 2022 gun rights expansion.