Everything. What the girl did was unthinkable and, from someone who has two small children, horrifying. But the facts do not fit the crime that she was charged with, either – the charges, the prosecution, the trial, the conviction were all wrong. Furthermore, the fact that the girl was tried by a juvenile court judge [..]
The question of whether a defendant in a criminal trial should testify is complex and the answer depends on many different variables. Most criminal defense lawyers will say that the defendant should not testify as a general rule. Some say that the defendant should always testify as a general rule. There are valid reasons for [..]
Last year South Carolina passed a law that requires law enforcement throughout the state to wear body cameras, subject to guidelines, policies and procedures that had not yet been drafted at the time, and subject to funding for each agency. The law also makes recordings from the body cameras exempt from Freedom of Information Act [..]
Edit: Governor Haley vetoed this moped bill and the Senate failed to override the veto, so South Carolina’s moped laws remain unchanged for now. You cannot be charged with DUI or DUS while on a moped under the current law. The state legislature has passed amendments to South Carolina’s moped laws that will take effect [..]
