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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
10:00 a.m. (Time Limits: 15-15-5)
2022-001254 The State, Respondent, v. Derrick Tyler Mills, Petitioner.
Tommy Arthur Thomas, of Irmo, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, of Columbia; and Solicitor David Michael Pascoe, Jr., of Summerville, all for Respondent.
The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Mills, Op. No. 2022-UP-309 (S.C. Ct. App. filed July 20, 2022).
11:30 a.m. (Time Limits: 15-15-5)
2022-001260 Patricia Pate, Employee/Claimant, Respondent, v. College of Charleston, Employer, and State Accident Fund, Carrier, Petitioners.
Kirsten Leslie Barr, of Trask & Howell, LLC, of Mt. Pleasant, for Petitioners. Stephen Benjamin Samuels, of Samuels Reynolds Law Firm, LLC, of Columbia and Max Capper Sparwasser, of Max Sparwasser Law Firm, LLC, of Mt. Pleasant, for Respondent.
We granted the College of Charleston's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals decision in Pate v. College of Charleston, 437 S.C. 139, 876 S.E.2d 877 (Ct. App. 2022). The court of appeals reversed and remanded Pate's workers' compensation case back to the Workers' Compensation Commission for further review and analysis.
Thursday, May 2, 2024
10:00 a.m. (Time Limits: 15-15-5)
2022-001480 Daisy Frederick, Respondent, v. Daniel Lee McDowell, Petitioner.
R. Hawthorne Barrett, of Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., of Columbia, for Petitioner. Roy T. Willey, IV and Eric Marc Poulin, of Poulin, Willey, Anastopoulo, LLC, of Charleston; and Robert Brian Critzer and Kaye Gorenflo Hearn, both of Wyche P.A., of Columbia, all for Respondent.
We granted Daniel McDowell's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Frederick v. McDowell, Op. No. 2022-UP-303 (S.C. Ct. App. filed July 20, 2022). The Court will determine whether the trial court erred in denying McDowell's motion for a new trial absolute or new trial nisi remittitur.
11:30 a.m. (Time Limits: 15-15-5)
2023-000131 The State, Petitioner, v. Devin Jamel Johnson, Respondent.
Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Attorney General W. Edgar Salter, III and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett Ann Wilson, of Charleston, all for Petitioner. Appellate Defender Breen Richard Stevens, of Columbia, for Respondent.
We granted the State's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Johnson, 438 S.C. 110, 129, 882 S.E.2d 190, 200 (Ct. App. 2022), wherein the court of appeals reversed Devin Jamel Johnson's murder conviction because it found the trial court erred in charging the jury on accomplice liability. We will consider whether (1) the court of appeals erred in reversing Johnson's murder conviction because evidence at trial supported the accomplice liability jury instruction and (2) this Court should overrule previous case law as to accomplice liability jury instructions.