South Carolina

February, 24, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Jeez! What a headline! Charleston Black Lives Matter leader Muhiyidin d’Baha arrested at Confederate flag protest What happened? Was he dogpiled by cops in problematic body armor? Was he arrested...

January 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Great news, everyone! On Tuesday, Jan. 10, Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested 17-year-old David Michael Elliott after his instructor, Edward McIver, told them he was struck in the eye...

January 10, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Convicted white supremacist murderer Dylann Storm Roof is, by many accounts and by all colloquial sentiments, totally crazy. Of course, that doesn’t mean he is insane or incompetent, as a...

January 10, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Dylann Roof appeared ready to let U.S. Attorney Nathan Williams lead him to a South Carolina gallows during his sentencing hearing. Williams gladly obliged, bringing thirty-eight witnesses with victim impact...

December 16, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Dylann Roof murdered numerous peaceful churchgoers to try to start a race war. Crimes don’t get worse than. People don’t get more evil than that. As if his crime wasn’t...

November 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) – Abraham Lincoln wisely said, “he who represents himself has a fool for a client.” Obviously the reverse is also true. No matter how smart a defendant thinks he is, when...

November 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Lawyers deal in persuasion. Part of being an effective advocate requires you learn how to sway a trier of fact to secure the best possible outcome for your side. Still,...

November 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Jack Eugene Turner is no one’s idea of the perfect neighbor. On the same day that nine black Americans were gunned down in a South Carolina church, he hung a black...

November 8, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Michael Slager, a white police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, shot and killed Walter Scott as Scott was running away from him. Scott was unarmed and black. Video of...

September 9, 2016 (Fault Lines) — In this depressing time of wars, rumors of wars, presidential elections and insufferable celebrity temper tantrums, please take a moment to read the tale of the clowns infesting Greenville, S.C.,...