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08/12/2024

07/10/2023

https://cma.sc.gov/second-chance

In recognition of Second Chance Month, the South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs released its initial Second Chance Reentry Resource Guide during a live event on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The resource guide, which is comprised of local, state and national resources, is designed to assist t...

05/24/2023

“Any utterances by a defendant, whether they are confessions, denials, observations, nonsensical gibberish, or just plain goofy are nothing but pure gold for prosecutors.”
Julieanne Himelstein
former assistant U.S. attorney in Washington.
PLEASE DON’T TALK UNTIL YOU’VE TALKED TO AN EXCELLENT CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER!

08/14/2022

07/29/2022

Creative and aggressive advocacy. Elizabeth Franklin-Best, P.C. (803) 445-1333.

07/18/2022

Case dismissed! Printed with permission of my wonderful client Matthew Walters.

Nothing on this page is intended as a guarantee or prediction of future results. Any results of cases described are not intended to be representative of all results. Any result the lawyer or law firm may have achieved on behalf of clients in other matters does not necessarily indicate similar results can be obtained for other clients.

06/30/2022

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exercise of speech rights. Make sure you’re prepared by brushing up on your rights before heading out i...

06/23/2022

My dad, Dr. John Duffy, was proud of his work with helping inmates get college degrees through USC. He told me that those at the prisons were his favorite graduations. Reactionary, and short-sighted, laws essentially ended the program 30 years ago. I’m glad to see funding for these programs is back.
“There are very few bachelor's degree programs offered in prisons because, for the last quarter-century, there has been a ban on people in prison using federal money to pay for college classes. It's a vestige of the "tough on crime" era that was set in stone in the 1994 crime bill.”

Kenny Butler and Daniel Duron worked toward their degrees while in prison. Their journey could become more common with Pell grants becoming available to incarcerated people.

06/10/2022

https://youtu.be/uXv00pti3x0

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) delivers her opening statement in the first public hearing of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that occurred on January 6, 2021.

05/05/2022

https://thecrimereport.org/2022/05/04/abortion-prison-and-the-death-penalty/

A woman who decides to end her pregnancy is already at risk of capital punishment in many parts of the U.S. if she is prosecuted for murder, warns a death penalty opponent.