JURIST
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
According to a June report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Georgia, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas also require some incarcerated persons to work for no pay. .” Because 61 percent of voters said they did not support the amendment, the slavery loophole will remain in Louisiana.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Arizona was “not a significant change in law” meriting a second post conviction relief application. South Carolina “did not apply” in Arizona. In Lynch, the US Supreme Court overruled the Arizona Supreme Court’s determination that the case Simmons v.
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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. Other states have minimal standards.
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. South Carolina is a Castle Doctrine state as well as a Stand Your Ground state. That can factor heavily into the criminal investigation.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
South Carolina , which held that jurors must receive such information to rebut an inference that the defendant posed a danger in the future. Regarding other states, Jackson voiced concern about what a decision for Arizona could communicate: “It [would give] other states … a roadmap for defying this court’s criminal law decisions.”
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.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 4, 2022
Ted Cruz of Texas, who overlapped at Harvard Law School with Jackson, characterizing her as “charming” and “talented” and noting that he had “always liked her personally.” But they assailed what Sen. Republicans also complained about the Democrats’ past and present treatment of conservative judicial nominees.
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