SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge is scheduled to resolve a weapons-related charge Friday against a codefendant in the case against actor Alec Baldwin for the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on a movie set. Prosecutors announced in ...

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  A Conway woman’s voluntary manslaughter conviction has been overturned because there was no evidence that she shot her husband in a heat of passion, and thus no justification for the trial judge to instruct the jury on the charge ...

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LEXINGTON (AP) A doctor charged with involuntary manslaughter has resigned from a South Carolina hospital. Lexington Medical Center suspended Dr. Adam Lazzarini from its orthopedics program after his arrest earlier this month in the October shooting death of a salesman ...

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Holding: The defendant’s prior conviction for involuntary manslaughter in South Carolina did not qualify as a “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act. Background Appellant Jarnaro Carlos Middleton pled guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. ...

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Sotnikau v. Lynch (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-023-17, 14 pp.) (King, J.) No. 15-2073, Jan. 24, 2017; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: Virginia’s involuntary manslaughter offense is not a “crime of moral turpitude,” and the Board of Immigration Appeals ...

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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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It didn’t matter that murder defendant Morris A. Sullivan was in his own house, or that he was firing warning shots at a man who was coming after him. What mattered, in the eyes of the S.C. Court of Appeals, ...

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A Summerville man has been sentenced to three years in prison for the death of another man in a bar in Berkeley County more than two years ago.

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State v. Murray Even if a jury could reasonably conclude defendant accidentally fired the first two shots, there is no evidence that the third shot – which killed the victim – was unintentional. Therefore, the trial court correctly refused to instruct the jury on involuntary manslaughter.

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The first man sentenced to death in South Carolina for killing an unborn child is set to be released from prison this week, state officials said July 31. Joseph Lee Ard, 41, was sentenced to time served last week after a new jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter. That crime carries a maximum of five years in prison; Ard has been incarcerated since 1993, according to prison records.

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