State v. Blackwell (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-034-17, 46 pp.) (Donald Beatty, C.J.) (John Few, J., concurring) (Costa Pleicones, Acting Justice, dissenting) Appealed from Spartanburg County Circuit Court (Roger Couch, J.) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: Even though the trial court followed ...

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State v. Johnson (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-102-16, 11 pp.) (John Geathers, J.) Appealed from Charleston County Circuit Court (R. Markley Dennis Jr., J.) S.C. App. Holding: In crafting his closing argument, defendant relied on the trial court’s assurance that it ...

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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — A 49-year-old man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing a 32-year-old woman and dismembering her body. Multiple media outlets report Randy Robinson pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter and obstruction of justice. ...

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Georgia prosecutors brought Alexander Hunsberger to trial less than two years after taking custody of the murder and kidnapping defendant. But prosecutors in South Carolina spent a decade preparing to try Hunsberger for virtually the same case. Finding that prosecutors ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting of Walter Scott as he ran away from a traffic stop wants his trial moved from Charleston, where a bystander’s video of the shooting has ...

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ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — Prosecutors with the 10th Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office have quietly dropped murder charges against seven people. The Anderson Independent-Mail reports that the seven people had been accused of involvement in the July 2015 fatal drive-by shooting ...

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State v. Douglas (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-054-16, 2 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Chesterfield County Circuit Court (J. Michael Baxley, J.) On writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals. S.C. S. Ct. Holding: We improvidently granted certiorari to review ...

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U.S. v. Murillo (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-107-16, 20 pp.) (King, J.) No. 15-4235, June 14, 2016; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Lee, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Prosecution in the U.S. of a Colombian citizen for his role in the murder in ...

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A public defender’s failure to call witnesses to testify in defense of a woman who was found guilty of killing her 13-month-old son and a subsequent misstep made by a post-conviction relief attorney concerned the South Carolina Court of Appeals, ...

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — North Charleston’s mayor is calling for more security cameras after a tourist from Ohio was gunned down and killed outside a hotel last month. Mayor Keith Summey tells The Post and Courier of Charleston that ...

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