#Giep meaning trial#

Road, LLC argues the trial court erred by finding that (1) there was no evidence to support the jury's finding of breach of contract, (2) the $5 million in damages were speculative, and (3) the contract was a nullity.Ģ017-002517 Fine Housing, Inc., Appellant,Ĭharles S. In this breach of contract action, Road, LLC and Pinckney Point, LLC appeal the trial court's order granting Beaufort County's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. Caroline Dolores Gimenez, of Anderson, for Respondent. Achurch, III, both of Howell Gibson & Hughes, PA, of Beaufort, for Respondent. Mitchell Brown, Allen Mattison Bogan, and Nicholas Andrew Charles, all of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, of Columbia, for Respondent. George Trenholm Walker and John Phillips Linton, Jr., both of Walker Gressette Freeman & Linton, LLC, of Charleston, for Appellants. Carpenter also asserts the circuit court erred in failing to rule on Carpenter's declaratory judgment claims and, finally, Carpenter argues the circuit court was biased in favor of Respondents.Ģ017-001736 Road, LLC and Pinckney Point, LLC, Plaintiffs,īeaufort County, a political subdivision of the State of South Carolina, Respondent. Carpenter asserts the trial court erred in finding: (1) Carpenter's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was not proper for the circuit court (2) Carpenter's current claims against the State should have been raised in a petition for post-conviction relief (3) Carpenter's sentencing judge had proper jurisdiction to sentence Carpenter to two consecutive twenty-five year terms of imprisonment and (4) the State Department of Corrections (SCDC) did not violate Carpenter's due process rights. Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Megan Harrigan Jameson, of Columbia, for Respondent The State.Ĭharles Carpenter appeals the circuit court's denials of his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Declaratory Judgment. Damon Christian Wlodarczyk, of Riley Pope & Laney, LLC, of Columbia, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Corrections. Watson, III, both of Ballard & Watson, Attorneys at Law, of West Columbia, for Appellant. South Carolina Department of Corrections and The State of South Carolina, Respondents.ĭesa Ballard and Harvey M. Joshua Abraham Edwards, of Columbia, for Respondent.Ģ017-002577 Charles Eugene Carpenter, Appellant, Joanna Katherine Delany, of Columbia, for Appellant. He maintains because he told the police his gun 'went off' accidentally as he attempted to dispose of the gun during a police chase, the trial court erred in charging the jury 'when the intent to do an act that violates the law exists, motive becomes immaterial,' because attempted murder was a specific intent crime and this was essentially a general intent instruction. appeals his conviction of attempted murder. Blitch, Jr., of Columbia, for Respondent. Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General William M. Edgar Salter, III, of Columbia, for Respondent.Īngelita Wright appeals her murder conviction, arguing the circuit court erred in qualifying Sergeant Letterman as an expert in cell phone mapping and allowing him to testify outside the scope of permissible rebuttal testimony.Ĭhief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek, of Columbia, for Appellant. Specifically, Team IA argues the master erred because: (1) the Agreement and the circuit court's order entering the 2015 judgment allowed for attorney's fees (2) the Agreement's fee-shifting provision was not ambiguous (3) the master did not consider evidence of the parties' intent, (4) the merger doctrine did not extinguish Team IA's right to attorney's fees upon the entry of the 2015 judgment and (5) the master's findings were against the law of the case.Ĭhief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek, of Columbia, and Jordan Christopher Calloway, of McGowan Hood & Felder, LLC, of Rock Hill, for Appellant. Team IA argues the master-in-equity erred in finding it was not entitled to post-judgment attorney's fees in connection with the supplemental proceedings. This appeal involves Team IA's supplemental proceedings to collect on a 2015 judgment it obtained against Cicero Lucas after a jury found Lucas breached an employment agreement (the Agreement) with Team IA. Mendoza, Jr., of Nexsen Pruet, LLC, of Columbia, for Respondent. Bruner, of Bruner Powell Wall & Mullins, LLC, of Columbia, for Appellant.