South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog

Via Injustice Newsfeed:

A Richland County Sheriff's deputy is suspended without pay after being charged with driving under the influence (DUI).

Another Richland County Sheriff's deputy causes a traffic accident while speeding (in a county vehicle and not responding to a call), sending an elderly woman and her teenage grandson to the hospital.

A Chesterfield County Deputy is suspended without pay for three days, but remains on the job after punching an inmate and breaking his nose. The inmate insulted the deputy's daughter.

Greenville County Sheriff's Office is being sued along with former deputy Brian Douglas Tollison (fired following the incident) and three other deputies, for allegedly using excessive force by repeatedly punching a teenager in the face during an arrest. Tollison has been charged criminally with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.

Two more Greenville police officers are sentenced to three years probation last month after pleading guilty to civil rights violations in federal court - one was charged with slamming a suspect onto his car so hard that it left a dent, and the other with poking a deaf, mute, homeless man and then pouring hand sanitizer on his head.

A Clinton, S.C. police officer is sentenced to 6 months of prison after pleading guilty to "misconduct in office." The misconduct involved forcing a woman to give him oral sex in exchange for not arresting her after finding drugs in her purse.