South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog

Conway Attorney Irby Walker was charged today with trying to hire someone to kill another attorney, according to police.

Walker, 58, was charged with solicitation of a felony after Doug Thornton told police Sept. 11 that Walker had made threats against his life and believed he was trying to follow through on those threats, according to Horry County police Lt. Jamie DeBari.

I don't have much to say about this, but I felt that I needed to post it. The Horry County Bar is medium-sized at best, and most lawyers here know each other, at least in passing. It is difficult to believe that something like this is true, and the public reading the articles on the web or seeing this on the news needs to bear in mind that this attorney, like every other person accused of a crime, is presumed innocent at this point.