Trial in SC Episcopal church split winding up
ST. GEORGE (AP) — The trial stemming from the Episcopal division in eastern South Carolina is ending after three weeks of testimony. Friday is expected to be the last day of testimony in Dorchester...
View ArticleTestimony begins in lawsuit in SC mayor’s death
CHARLESTON (AP) — Testimony has begun in federal court in Charleston in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Colleton County mayor shot to death by a town police officer. The Post and...
View ArticleProsecutor wants 10 years in prison for Pistorius
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The chief prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius trial urged the judge on Friday to send the Olympic athlete to prison for at least 10 years, calling it the minimum acceptable...
View Article10 rules to improve your chance of winning at trial
It can be easy for lawyers both old and new (but particularly new) to get so wrapped up in all the complex discussions about the psychology of trial that they overlook the fundamentals of winning. So...
View ArticleTrial in SC Episcopal church split winding up
ST. GEORGE (AP) — The trial stemming from the Episcopal division in eastern South Carolina is ending after three weeks of testimony. Friday is expected to be the last day of testimony in Dorchester...
View ArticleTestimony begins in lawsuit in SC mayor’s death
CHARLESTON (AP) — Testimony has begun in federal court in Charleston in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Colleton County mayor shot to death by a town police officer. The Post and...
View ArticleProsecutor wants 10 years in prison for Pistorius
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The chief prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius trial urged the judge on Friday to send the Olympic athlete to prison for at least 10 years, calling it the minimum acceptable...
View Article10 rules to improve your chance of winning at trial
It can be easy for lawyers both old and new (but particularly new) to get so wrapped up in all the complex discussions about the psychology of trial that they overlook the fundamentals of winning. So...
View ArticleMan who got life for murder at 16 getting new sentence
CHESTER (AP) A man sent to prison for life for killing a couple in South Carolina when he was 16 is getting a new sentence for the crime. Theodore Harrison Jr. is in court this week in Chester County....
View ArticleSuspended Columbia senator faces trial on misconduct charges
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A suspended South Carolina state senator is set to go on trial on misconduct charges. Trial is scheduled in Columbia on June 4 for Sen. John Courson, who is also charged with...
View ArticleTo succeed at trial, ‘follow the paint’
My father is a minor celebrity. He’s a successful artist. He has a television show on PBS. He’s won an Emmy. He’s taught at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When asked to talk about painting a...
View ArticleTrial date set for Kavanaugh’s would-be assassin
GREENBELT, Md. — A trial is scheduled to start in June 2025 for a California man charged with trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington. U.S....
View ArticleState, condemned man’s attorneys spar over execution drug
COLUMBIA — Lawyers for the South Carolina inmate scheduled to be put to death later this month said Tuesday that state prison officials didn’t provide enough information about the drug to decide...
View ArticleHunter Biden enters surprising guilty plea to tax charges
LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges Thursday in a surprise move that spares President Joe Biden and his family another likely embarrassing and painful criminal trial of the...
View ArticleFraud, conspiracy trial looms for Nevada politician
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada Republican who ran unsuccessfully for state treasurer in 2022 pleaded not guilty Monday to two new charges and headed toward trial in two weeks on federal accusations she used...
View ArticleCombs jailed after sex trafficking indictment
NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs was headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in his federal sex trafficking case, after a magistrate ordered him to be held without bail in a case that accuses him of...
View ArticleLaw ’n History: Dr. Holmes and Mr. Hyde
By R. Marc Kantrowitz He was a catch. Handsome, of medium height and build, dapper in appearance and dress, exuding wealth. A doctor no less and young, in his later 20s, and with an affable manner that...
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Law ‘n History: Thaw ices White
By R. Marc Kantrowitz So scandalous was the trial that the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for President Teddy Roosevelt to ban the postal service from delivering newspapers...
View ArticleSC death row inmate makes final appeal
COLUMBIA — A man convicted of murder who is expected to be the next inmate scheduled for execution in South Carolina is making a final appeal to the state Supreme Court, saying his trial lawyer was...
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Deer season or mediation season?
By Spencer Farris It is taxing to transition from a weekend in a deer stand to being back in the office. One has an uncomfortable seat with long, boring lulls and the phone rings at inopportune times....
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