If you have been charged with a crime in SC, you may be feeling overwhelmed – confused, frightened, angry, or just lost. What should you do? First, get a criminal defense lawyer on your case who can, hopefully, get your case dismissed, win your case at trial, or help...
Seeing the blue lights flashing in your rearview mirror, you put on your blinker and pull over to the side of the road. When the cop comes to the window, he asks for your license and registration, and then, with a very serious expression on his face, he asks, “how...
SC law allows you to make a citizen’s arrest under certain circumstances, and SC’s citizen’s arrest laws also authorize you to kill a person under certain circumstances after dark. We see a lot of commentary where people complain about SC’s Stand Your Ground law (the...
If you are charged with a crime in General Sessions Court in Horry County, SC, you are entitled to a preliminary hearing. Preliminary hearings can be an important stage in your case where 1) your case could be dismissed for a lack of probable cause or 2) even if your...
Based on the FBI’s most recent US Crime Report, Myrtle Beach’s crime rates rank us as the 3rd most dangerous city in America. The crime rates in Myrtle Beach – even when broken down into categories like violent crime and property crime – are much higher than those in...
Do police need an arrest warrant before arresting someone in SC? If you are handcuffed, taken to jail, fingerprinted, and charged with a crime, don’t police need an arrest warrant to show that a judge found probable cause and so you know exactly what you are charged...
