Criminal Law Legal South Carolina 
The Crime Report
MAY 20, 2021
South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial. Many legal experts say that people facing life without parole should receive the same level of representation as those facing the death penalty.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 28, 2023
A terrible tragedy has befallen the University of South Carolina after sophomore Nicholas Anthony Donofrio , 20, was shot and killed on the front porch of a house in Columbia. Legally, the family may be faced with few options. South Carolina is a Castle Doctrine state as well as a Stand Your Ground state.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
The still unraveling story of Alex Murdaugh, the once powerful South Carolina lawyer, became even more bizarre this week with reports of the arrest of a man, Curtis Edward Smith, 61, accused of shooting him in the head. While Murdaugh allegedly invited his killing, the police did not treat the case as a murder under South Carolina law.
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