Police need a reasonable, articulable suspicion that you are armed and dangerous before they can “stop and frisk” you or...
In State v. Dean, decided last month, the SC Court of Appeals upheld the defendant’s grant of a new trial after the...
Who’s policing the police in SC? In the past ten years, sheriffs in more than one in four SC counties...
SC Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws – A Formula for Theft, Greed, and Public Corruption SC’s civil asset forfeiture laws need...
In State v. Holcombe, the SC Court of Appeals reversed convictions for breach of trust with fraudulent intent and obtaining money...
In case you didn’t know: police can lie to you. Police will lie to you to get you to confess...
What does “appurtenant to” mean? In State v. Massey, the SC Court of Appeals affirmed the circuit court’s dismissal of Massey’s...
In an article for Slate, Seth Stevenson writes about how he served as a juror in 1998, helped convict two men...
We recently had a client’s case dismissed – she was facing assault charges after she was attacked for, in the attacker’s opinion,...
Why do we need Black History Month? I’ve heard people say, “Why do we need Black History Month? We don’t...