Remember Jeroid Price's infamous sentence reduction? He was released from prison after his murder sentence was reduced in a “secret” order issued after a “secret” meeting between retired circuit court judge Casey Manning, Solicitor Byron Gipson of the Fifth Judicial Circuit (Judge Manning’s former law clerk), and defense attorney and Minority Leader of the House ...
A lesser-included offense could make the difference between prison time or probation, prison time or a fine, or substantial prison time or a short stint in the county jail, whether you are accepting a plea offer or taking your case to trial. But what does it mean? How do you prove it? Below, we will ...
If you are paying attention to the news, you may think that South Carolina has a brand-new fentanyl trafficking law that, for the first time, allows law enforcement to arrest drug dealers for trafficking fentanyl, with more severe penalties than ever before for a drug crime in our state. Much of that is not true. ...
South Carolina has new bond laws – “bond reform” that 1) is intended to keep accused repeat offenders in jail before their trial, but that also 2) ensures rich people who are charged with a crime can get out of jail pending trial while poorer defendants will continue to stay behind bars. SC’s new bond ...
SC’s ignition interlock device program is getting an overhaul in the 2023 amendments to SC’s DUI laws, including new requirements for ignition interlock devices for first-time DUI and DUAC convictions and for implied consent violations. Below, we’ll provide some cliff notes and thoughts on the new law, including: What an ignition interlock device is, When ...
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. If you exercise your right to remain silent, that will also be used against you in a court of law… There’s no bombshell appellate opinion. No shocking, horrifying denial of our constitutional rights. ...