COLUMBIA (AP) A prosecutor who was asked to file charges against a South Carolina congressman who pulled out his own loaded handgun during a constituent meeting is recusing himself from the case. Solicitor Kevin Brackett said in a letter released ...

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U.S. v. Robinson (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-088-17, 9 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 15-4741, April 25, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Motz, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit upholds defendant’s conviction for carjacking based on his participation, with two companions, ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After a South Carolina police officer shot and killed a driver in 2014, he told investigators the man had grabbed his gun — but a newly released investigative file reveals that the driver’s DNA was not ...

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U.S. v. Robinson (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-040-16, 46 pp.) (Harris, J.) No. 14-4902, Feb. 23, 2016; USDC at Martinsburg, W.Va. (Groh, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: An anonymous tip that a black man had loaded a gun in a 7-Eleven parking ...

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Wigington v. State (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-078-15, 9 pp.) (James Lockemy, J.) Appealed from Spartanburg County (Doyet Early III, Trial Judge & Roger Couch, Post-Conviction Relief Judge) S.C. App. Holding: Where petitioner testified that his gun went off while he ...

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FORT MILL (AP) — York County deputies have shot and killed a man they say pointed a gun at them. The sheriff’s office says deputies responded to a home in Fort Mill early Tuesday morning to check on someone who ...

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Justice Kaye Hearn seemed to relish the recent task of writing the state Supreme Court’s opinion in State v. Samuels, seizing the opportunity to expound on both the legal and common understandings of duplicity, describing it as “an ill-favored quality in both life and the law.”

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U.S. v. Black Even assuming the initial encounter between a group of uniformed police officers and a group of five men congregated at a gas station was consensual, the officers’ increasing show of authority, immediate seizure of one man’s gun and frisk of the men in the group and seizure of defendant’s ID, quickly changed the encounter to an investigatory detention, and the 4th Circuit says a gun found on defendant should have been suppressed.

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U.S. v. Allen. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-019-11, 16 pp.) (King, J.) No. 10-4012, Jan. 21, 2011; USDC at Baltimore (Motz, J.) 4th Cir. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: Although one detective’s affidavit said a post-shooting ...

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