Chris Mills Law

09/07/2022

SC MEANS OF EX*****ON HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL: As many of you may know, my firm has been involved with the litigation challenging the constitutionality of South Carolina's Death Penalty statute, which makes electrocution and the firing squad the available means of ex*****on. Late yesterday afternoon, a very courageous state court judge ruled in our favor. While we are prepared for the inevitable appeal, we are keeping our enthusiams tempered. Regardless it is a great win and a good example of the state constitution providing greater protection than their federal counterpart.

04/19/2019

https://www.thestate.com/news/special-reports/article222995365.html

The South Carolina Department of Corrections fails to provide basic medical care to all inmates in its 21 prisons, lawsuits and inmates say. The results: a baby’s death, blindness, misdiagnoses — and questions about how taxpayers’ dollars are being spent.

04/02/2019

A $507,500 settlement has been reached in the case of a mentally disturbed suicidal Lancaster County, South Carolina, jail inmate. Evidence in the case showed guards slept and otherwise ignored mentally troubled inmate.

04/02/2019

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article228714519.html

A real tragedy for the Stevens family and a sense of justice and closure for this to be over. RIP Randy Stevens

A $507,500 settlement has been reached in the case of a mentally disturbed suicidal Lancaster County, South Carolina, jail inmate. Evidence in the case showed guards slept and otherwise ignored mentally troubled inmate.

11/11/2017

Only the best people?

Brett Talley is a lawyer and partisan blogger who is slated to become a federal judge. At 36, he's never tried a case and was rated "unqualified" by the American Bar Assn. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved him on a party-line vote.

10/12/2017

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/11/police-killings-counted-harvard-study?CMP=share_btn_fb

Harvard study finds over half of deaths wrongly classified, in latest example of databases greatly undercounting police killings

11/15/2016

http://www.heraldonline.com/news/state/south-carolina/article114108668.html

A jury has awarded a Rock Hill-area man $150,000 in damages after deputies with the York County Sheriff's Office arrested him after injuring an assailant who had trespassed and attacked him on his property.

11/15/2016

http://www.thestate.com/news/state/south-carolina/article114118078.html

A jury in York County, South Carolina, awarded Russell Carter $150,000 after he successfully claimed he had a right to defend himself and his family in a stand-your-ground situation in 2012 when he was arrested.

10/04/2016

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/03/496442165/los-angeles-police-guided-by-compassion-in-new-homeless-strategy

Los Angeles has a new strategy for policing the homeless: one guided by compassion. It's rolling out a new team of officers dedicated to "helping" rather than "dealing with" homeless people. They're acting more like social workers than cops.

05/31/2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/05/31/the-south-carolina-police-files-gunslinging-raids-coverups-and-magical-dog-sniffs/

05/17/2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/05/16/as-videos-expose-wrongdoing-by-south-carolina-cops-police-agencies-tighten-control-over-footage/

Video that contradicts police narratives has brought some accountability for officer misconduct. But it's getting harder to get such videos released.