A 130-year prison sentence handed down in the 1990s to a teenager convicted of two sexual assaults is outside the scope of a pair of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that preclude life sentences for juveniles, a narrowly divided South ...

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A man who was serving a life sentence for selling drugs was released from prison June 18 after his conviction was overturned. WCSC reports Onrae Williams was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole in January 2007 ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A South Carolina man whose life sentence for the torture death of a drug dealer was overturned has agreed to spend 30 years in prison for the crime. Federal prosecutors say 39-year-old Antonio Miller pleaded guilty to several ...

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CHARLESTON (AP) A new trial has been ordered for a South Carolina man who’s serving a life sentence for selling $15 in crack cocaine a decade ago. The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for 35-year-old Onrae ...

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CHESTER (AP) A man sent to prison for life for killing a couple in South Carolina when he was 16 is getting a new sentence for the crime. Theodore Harrison Jr. is in court this week in Chester County. Harrison ...

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Two North Carolina gang members are to be sentenced in the shooting deaths of a South Carolina couple who were to testify against other gang members who tried to rob them. Jamell Cureton and Malcolm Hartley will be sentenced Tuesday ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Hurt was on truant patrol when he came across a teenager in a Baton Rouge park on a cool fall morning. The teenager pulled a gun from his jacket, panicked, he said, and shot ...

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U.S. v. Said (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-150-15, 42 pp.) (King, J.) No. 14-4413(L), Aug. 13, 2015; USDC at Norfolk, Va. (Jackson, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit upholds the Somali defendants’ convictions of piracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1651 ...

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While testimony against a man ultimately convicted of sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s daughter was constitutional, it also allowed a witness wrongfully qualified as an expert witness to vouch for the alleged victim’s credibility, the South Carolina Supreme Court held Aug. ...

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Few things last forever anymore. All around us, marriages crumble, taxes are evaded, tattoos are removed. Even a life sentence doesn’t necessarily mean for the rest of your life. But it’s usually a mighty long time, and for that reason ...

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