Evidence of a defendant’s attempted suicide is admissible as evidence of guilt, the state Supreme Court has ruled, but only under certain, very limited, circumstances. In 2011, the South Carolina Court of Appeals held in State v. Orozco that ...

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An officer violated the Fourth Amendment in shooting a suicidal man who had a knife but was threatening only himself. The officer was entitled to qualified immunity, but the unconstitutionality of his actions is clearly established as of the date ...

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Wickersham v. Ford Motor Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-130-17, 36 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 9:13-cv-01192; D.S.C. Holding: Despite the fact that Donze v. General Motors, LLC, 800 S.E.2d 479 (S.C. 2017), is distinguishable from this case, the court applies the ...

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The estate of a man who committed suicide after being severely injured in a car accident was awarded $4.65 million last year, an attorney for the plaintiff has reported. According to Austin Crosby of Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth Detrick in ...

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Wickersham v. Ford Motor Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-130-16, 33 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 9:13-cv-01192; D.S.C. Holding: As a general rule, suicide constitutes an independent act of the decedent that extinguishes the line of causation connecting a defendant’s actions to ...

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ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Rock Hill attorney Horace Jones Jr. has appeared in many South Carolina courthouses over the past two decades, representing clients primarily on money matters. On Monday morning, Jones, 45, was scheduled to be in a ...

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Watson v. Adams (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-069-15, 20 pp.) (Bruce Howe Hendricks, J.) 4:12-cv-03436; D.S.C. Holding: Even if defendants lacked reasonable suspicion to pull plaintiff’s decedent over, and even if defendants’ arrest of the decedent was the straw that broke ...

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COWPENS (AP) — Authorities say a retired Spartanburg deputy shot his wife to death, then turned the gun on himself. The Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office told local media outlets Thursday of his ruling in the deaths of 68-year-old Rex Miguel ...

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Robinson v. American General Life Insurance Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-142-14, 5 pp.) (Joseph Anderson Jr., J.) 3:14-cv-01325; D.S.C. Holding: Since plaintiffs’ decedent agreed that insanity could not be used to avoid the suicide exclusion in his life insurance policy, ...

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A prosecutor has decided not to file charges against a police officer in the death of a 19-year-old man at a Charleston apartment, saying the evidence is clear the teen shot himself.

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