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. But the standards have yet to be approved by other state regulators.
The Crime Report
MARCH 3, 2022
Similarly, In 11 states — including Arkansas, Delaware, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas — ineligibility for jury service is permanent without a pardon. On a more broad spectrum, a pardon may be necessary to enable anyone to run for elected office, or simply secure a professional or business license.
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 19, 2021
The jury was told the parties had stipulated that Greer had previously been convicted of a felony. Thus, the 11th Circuit concluded, Greer suffered no prejudice when he was convicted by a jury that had not been instructed of the government’s obligation to prove that Greer knew of his felony status when possessing the firearm.
The Crime Report
MAY 9, 2022
Seven people hit with bullets at a South Carolina lounge during an Easter bash. In some states, residents couldn’t previously obtain a permit to carry if they had been convicted of resisting law enforcement or had juvenile adjudications that would have been felonies had the person been an adult.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 24, 2023
The statute was amended in 1950 to remove burglary from the list, and in 1968 it was amended to add rape and murder, in part because a federal civil rights commission noted the omission of such serious felonies from the list. South Carolina to present evidence of her good behavior in prison. She also notes that in Skipper v.
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
MARCH 23, 2022
South Carolina that in cases where a capital defendant’s future dangerousness is at issue, due process entitles the defendant to inform the jury that he will be ineligible for parole if not sentenced to death. Next week we should have a better idea what the justices think. In 1994, the Supreme Court held in Simmons v. New Relists.
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