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South Carolina Court of Appeals Courtroom I
The summary below each case is prepared to offer lawyers and the public a general overview of what issues are included in a case which will be argued. The summary is not a limit on what issues a party to a case may present at oral argument.
Tuesday, May 8, 2024
10:40 a.m. (Time Limits: 10-10-5)
2020-000882 Francisco Roberto Rodriguez, Petitioner, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent.
Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Senior Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, of Columbia, for Respondent.
In this action for post-conviction relief (PCR), Francisco R. Rodriguez argues the PCR court erred in finding he suffered no prejudice from plea counsel's failure to advise him that entering an Alford plea would result in mandatory deportation and a permanent ban on reentry into the United States.
11:20 a.m. (Time Limits: 15-15-5)
2022-000282 Michael K. Crowley, Employee, Appellant, v. Darlington County, Employer, and South Carolina Association of Counties SIF, Carrier, Respondents.
Gerald Malloy, of Malloy Law Firm, of Hartsville; and Preston F. McDaniel, of McDaniel Law Firm, of Columbia, for Appellant. Johnnie W. Baxley, III, of Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A., of North Charleston; and John Gabriel Coggiola, of Marc Brown Law Firm, LLC, of Columbia, both for Respondents.
In this workers' compensation action against Darlington County, Employer, and the South Carolina Association of Counties, Carrier, Michael K. Crowley appeals the order of the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission), arguing the Commission erred in (1) failing to award total and permanent disability based on loss of use of his back, (2) failing to award total and permanent disability based on loss of earning capacity; (3) admitting a medical opinion and evaluation report, and (4) in making certain findings of fact that were legal conclusions rather than factual findings.
12:00 p.m. (Time Limits: 10-10-5)
2021-000976 The State, Respondent, v. Michael Christian Barclay, Appellant.
Appellate Defender Joanna Katherine Delany, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and William Joseph Maye, both of Columbia, for Respondent.
Michael Christian Barclay appeals his conviction for murder and sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Barclay argues the trial court erred in (1) failing to dismiss his charge based on a due process violation, (2) instructing the jury on accomplice liability, (3) refusing to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter, and (4) failing to instruct the jury that it could draw an adverse inference against the State based on the destruction of certain evidence.
South Carolina Court of Appeals Courtroom II
The summary below each case is prepared to offer lawyers and the public a general overview of what issues are included in a case which will be argued. The summary is not a limit on what issues a party to a case may present at oral argument.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
10:40 a.m. (Time Limits: 10-10-5)
2022-001587 315 Corley CW LLC; 368 Mount Pelia LLC; Bridge Charleston Investments B LLC; Bridge Charleston Investments C LLC; Bridge Charleston Investments E LLC; Bridge Charleston Investments H LLC; Anne Bosler and Dylan Hart as Trustees of the Bosler-Hart Trust; Geoffrey J. Block; R. Jeffrey Kimball and Deborah S. Kimball; Sebrina Leigh-Jones and Chris Leigh-Jones; Jennifer Albero; Live Oak Assets LLC; Matthew N. Lynch and Barbara A. Lynch; MKM 22 West LLC; One Rumford Lane LLC; Salt Works LLC; and TTJR LLC; individually, derivatively, and as class representatives, as set forth herein, Respondents/Appellants, v. Palmetto Bluff Development, LLC; Palmetto Bluff Club, LLC; Palmetto Bluff Real Estate Company, LLC; PBLH, LLC; Montage Palmetto Bluff, LLC; Palmetto Bluff Preservation Trust, Inc.; Palmetto Bluff Preservation Trust Board of Stewards: Jordan Phillips; Mark Polites; Gray Ferguson; Henry Armistead; South Street Partners, LLC; John Does 1-25, Appellants/Respondents.
Val H. Stieglitz, III, of Maynard Nexsen LLP, of Columbia; Robert Bruce Wallace, of Maynard Nexsen, PC, of Charleston; Kirsten Elena Small, of Maynard Nexsen, PC, of Greenville; and Donald Falk, of San Francisco, CA, all for Appellants-Respondents. Ian S. Ford, Hunter H James, and Ainsley Fisher Tillman, all of Ford Wallace Thomson LLC, of Charleston, for Respondents-Appellants.
11:20 a.m. (Time Limits: 10-10-5)
2022-001665 In the Matter of James Marshall Shoemaker, Jr., James Marshall Shoemaker, III, Appellant, v. Lesley R. Moore, Esq., as Personal Representative and Trustee, and Edward Sloan Shoemaker and Jonathan Evans Shoemaker as Beneficiaries and as Individuals, Respondents. And James Marshall Shoemaker, III, Petitioner/Plaintiff, v. Lesley R. Moore, Esq. as Personal Representative and Trustee, Edward Sloan Shoemaker and Jonathan Evans Shoemaker, Respondents/Defendants.
William R. McKibbon, III, of Greenville, for Appellant. Tyler Earl McLeod and Julia Virginia Hendricks McLeod, both of Brown Massey Evans McLeod & Haynsworth, LLC, of Greenville, for Respondents.