WINNSBORO, S.C. (AP) — A retrial has been set for a 19-year-old man charged with killing a Chester city councilman. The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reports that Christopher Moore is expected to go back on trial June 27 in Fairfield County ...
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Read More »ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — An Anderson man is to go on trial in August on murder and attempted murder charges more than four years after the incident. The Anderson Independent Mail reports the case against 53-year-old Robert Joe Frost has ...
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Read More »State v. Wright (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-038-16, 15 pp.) (James Lockemy, J.) (John Geathers, J., concurring) Appealed from Horry County Circuit Court (John Hayes III, J.) S.C. App. Holding: Police had identified both defendant and Lanard Powell as suspects in ...
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A juvenile defendant facing charges of murder in aid of racketeering cannot be tried as an adult because the possible sentence would run afoul of recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a ...
Read More »CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Attorneys for the man convicted of killing Michael Jordan’s father in North Carolina in 1993 and dumping his body in South Carolina say they have new evidence to bolster their request for a new trial. The ...
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Read More »CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A Mount Pleasant man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for throwing a punch that killed another man. Local media outlets report that 25-year-old Dalton Ellis Clarke was found guilty Thursday of assault and ...
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Read More »U.S. v. Under Seal (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-064-16, 28 pp.) (Agee, J.) No. 15-4265, March 30, 2016; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Lee, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A district court did not err in refusing to transfer a juvenile offender to ...
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Read More »A facetiously nicknamed 30-year-old Colorado law aimed at protecting citizens in the friendly confines of their own homes has become deadly serious, prompting lawmakers to try and clarify what a dwelling is. In prison, it’s not uncommon to hear an ...
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Read More »State v. Marin (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-017-16, 12 pp.) (John Kittredge, J.) (Costa Pleicones, C.J., dissenting) Appealed from Spartanburg County Circuit Court (J. Derham Cole, J.) On writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals. S.C. S. Ct. Holding: Even ...
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Read More »WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Police say a man who spent 19 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit likely died by suicide. Winston-Salem police said in a news release Wednesday that Darryl Hunt died of a single gunshot ...
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