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The Ninth Circuit News

 

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General News | Press Releases | In the News | Community Service | Awards & Honors

 

 

GENERAL NEWS:


Worthless Check Unit touted
Charleston Post Courier
Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson - Click on 'Worthless Check Unit' to find a link to the form. "It's saved us a lot of time," she said of the program. ...

 

Businesses see returns on program to thwart bad checks
Charleston Post Courier
... a feat Solicitor Scarlett Wilson hailed Tuesday as a victory for merchants, law enforcement and offenders. “It's a win-win for everybody,” Wilson said. ...

 

Worthless check unit helps businesses cash in
Live 5 News
Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said she would like to extend the program into Berkeley County as well. She said it helps the businesses and keeps the bad check ...

 

Victims of Abuse Help County Fight Back
WCIV
Solicitor Scarlett Wilson today announced the creation of a new task force meant to fill the gaps in the system dealing with criminal domestic violence. ...

 

Crime witnesses still indispensable tool for justice

In January 2008, something out of the ordinary happened. It wasn't just that a woman was raped one morning as she worked at the Queen Street Grocery near the "back door" of our courthouse. It wasn't that the defendant was able to flee the scene on foot without being captured

 

Forum sheds light on city violence

The Community Partnership plans to hold regular forums to educate local residents on crime. This forum was directed at parents. In the fall, they hope to give a program aimed at teens.

 

Scarlett Wilson

Tough and aggressive, yes, but the 9th Circuit solicitor has lighter side

 

Residents, committee getting 'Fed Up'

Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson plucked a gold-finished .50-caliber Desert Eagle handgun from a table of firearms Thursday during a news conference to announce a state and federal initiative to combat gun violence.

 

Gun crimes to be prosecuted at the federal level
Solicitor Scarlet A. Wilson, U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins, and representatives from a number of federal and local law enforcement agencies unveiled a new program Thursday aimed at prosecuting illegal gun use at the federal level.

 

Wilson defeats Jennings after fierce campaign

Scarlett Wilson's blowout win in Tuesday's Republican primary means the region is on the verge of having its first elected female prosecutor.

 

Swearing-In Ceremony Held

Scarlett Wilson was sworn in as the Solicitor for the Ninth Circuit on September 4, 2007, by the Honorable Daniel F. Pieper.

 

Scarlett Wilson becomes first woman to serve as Ninth Circuit Solicitor

Scarlett Wilson, chosen to succeed Ralph Hoisington, could be the first female solicitor for the 9th Circuit, which includes Charleston and Berkeley counties.

 

 

PRESS RELEASES:


Charleston County Jury Convicts Antonio D. Patterson of Criminal Sexual Conduct in the First Degree. Patterson then pleads to a separate Criminal Sexual Conduct in the Third Degree

Date: 09/02/2010

 

Shooting over bicycle nets man 40 years in prison

Date: 08/03/2010

 

Berkeley County man found guilty of Murder, burying body in his front yard

Date: 07/08/2010

 

Berkeley County Judge sentences Tommy Flack

Date: 06/18/2010

 

Terrell Chandler sentenced to 50 years

Date: 06/14/2010

 

North Charleston man pleads guilty to two counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor in the 1st Degree

Date: 05/24/2010

 

Clint Hamilton sentenced to 30 years

Date: 05/14/2010

 

Man Convicted of Possessing Child Pornography

Date: 05/14/2010

 

Ricky Price sentenced to 25 years for Drugs and Assault on a Police Officer While Resisting Arrest

Date: 05/04/2010

 

Michael Jason Maxwell sentenced to 85 years

Date: 04/29/2010

 

Tremaine Devon Nelson sentenced to 45 years for Murder and Assault and Battery with Intent to Kill

Date: 04/23/2010

 

Man Convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter

Date: 04/23/2010

 

Berkeley County Jury Convicts Jermaine T. McKelvey

Date: 04/15/2010

 

Charleston County Jury Convicts Jeremiah Turner on Four Counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor in the First Degree and one Count of Lewd Act Upon a Minor

Date: 04/08/2010

 

Local Man-guilty of Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor in the 1st Degree

Date: 01/06/2010

 

Georgia man convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter for killing his wife on Christmas day.

Date: 12/17/2009

 

Guilty Verdict for Murder retrial in the strangling of a North Charleston woman.

Date: 12/10/2009

 

Tremaine Devon Nelson found guilty of Murder and Assault and Battery with Intent to Kill

Date: 11/12/2009

 

Local man found guilty of Kidnapping and Criminal Sexual Conduct

Date: 10/14/2009

 

Arthur Lee Rivers convicted to 25 years for trafficking cocaine

Date: 9/18/2009

 

Local man pleads guilty to Felony DUI

Date: 9/18/2009

 

Travoris Maurice Hurst guilty of Murder-sentenced to 39 years

Date: 8/28/2009

 

Goss and Mack guilty of Armed Robbery, Kidnapping and Assault and Battery with Intent to Kill.

Date: 2/27/2009

 

Press Releases Archive >>

 

IN THE NEWS:


Some life sentences barred

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court took two cracks at one of the law's thorniest questions Monday: When can you lock up a prisoner and throw away the key?

 

Comic's trial period

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Timmy Finch was always easy to recognize around Charleston. For years he was the guy up on stage making people laugh with his off-the-wall improv act.

 

Horlbeck gets life in prison

Friday, April 30, 2010

One of Charleston's most notorious criminals was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after a jury decided that he gunned down a 15-year-old boy over a $200 drug debt.

 

Man gets 23 years in fatal shooting

Saturday, April 24, 2010

A Lincolnville man was sentenced to 23 years in prison this week after a Charleston County jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the 2008 fatal shooting of 26-year-old Brandon Parker.

 

Keeping the bad guys behind bars

Friday, April 23, 2010

Solicitor Scarlett Wilson has her powers and her setbacks when it comes to ridding the Lowcountry of drug dealers.

 

Charleston drug sweep: only 4 suspects at large

Thursday, April 22, 2010

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Charleston City Police have arrested 15 people and issued arrest warrants for 15 others in a drug bust on the East side of Charleston Thursday.

 

1 in 5 death penalty cases led to death row 'The death penalty is a luxury. It's not a necessity.'

Monday, March 15, 2010

The Lowcountry has watched five death penalty cases unfold during the past year, but only one defendant now sits on death row.

 

SLED reviews records for signs of negligence

Monday, March 14, 2010

A team of State Law Enforcement Division agents is reviewing records from the Sofa Super Store blaze for signs of criminal negligence on the part of commanders who oversaw the attack on the inferno in which nine firemen died, authorities said.

 

Man guilty in 2000 killing - Traffic stop led police to remains in sunken car

Thursday, January 8, 2010

For eight years, the remains of an Iraqi man who came to America after the first Gulf War remained hidden, stuffed in the trunk of his car at the bottom of a McClellanville creek.

 

Man pleads guilty to sexual assault

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Willie Smalls, 59, pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, and Circuit Judge Thomas Hughston sentenced him to 20 years in prison.

 

3 plead guilty to roles in slaying

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Three co-defendants whose testimony helped convict William Dickerson of the 2006 murder of Gerard Roper pleaded guilty Wednesday to related crimes, and each received a sentence of at least five years in jail.

 

Mother of kidnapped infant won't face criminal charges; DSS to investigate

Thursday, December 10, 2009

The woman whose 1-month-old boy was abducted last month from a car she left unlocked and running as she went inside a post office will not face criminal charges, police said Wednesday.

 

Case against ex-officer dismissed

Friday, November 6, 2009

Prosecutors have dismissed their case against a former Moncks Corner police officer who was accused of asking his fellow officers to help plant drugs and guns in his ex-girlfriend's vehicle in 2005, authorities said.

 

Man convicted in attack on woman

Thursday, October 15, 2009

A Berkeley County jury found William F. Williams, 43, guilty of kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct in connection with his attack on a mother of five last year.

 

News Archive >>

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE:


Solicitor Wilson teams up to keep Lowcountry kids safe

Solicitor Wilson teams up with local non-profit and Mount Pleasant Police Department to keep Lowcountry kids safer from sexual abuse and “take a bite out of crime”.

 

Holiday Giving in Berkeley County

In response to the need of children and their families in Berkeley County the Ninth Circuit Solicitor's office adopted 9 children for this holiday season.

 

Katrina Relief Effort

After the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast area the Ninth Circuit Solicitor's office has raised food and donations for relief in the regions hit hardest.

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS:


Solicitor’s Office Employees Win Awards

On Wednesday, March 26, the South Carolina Victim Assistance Network presented Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson with the Criminal Justice Award.

 

Community Juvenile Arbitration Program receives an award for its work on behalf of first-time juvenile offenders

The South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) recently awarded The Honorable Marc H. Westbrook Memorial Excellence in Community Justice Award to the 9th Judicial Circuit’s Juvenile Arbitration Program, represented by Program Director Noah Moore and Circuit Solicitor Ralph E. Hoisington.

 

Frank Morea tireless in aiding young offenders

Frank Morea isn't one to sosmall and consider his accomplishments, not when there's still so much to do.

Tell him that his peers osmall him for redefining his role as chairman of Crime Sosmallpers of the Lowcountry by reaching out to other agencies, and he'll say there's room still to grow.

 

Mandy Larson named Volunteer of The Year "2006"-VICTIMS RIGHTS WEEK

Four years ago, a young nurse responded to a single car accident that she had just witnessed downtown Charleston. Seconds later, her life changed forever. While running to help someone who was possibly injured, the driver returned to his car, pulled out a gun and began firing.....

Noah Moore Honored by LASCAVA

Ninth Circuit Director of Juvenile Diversion Programs, Noah Moore, was honored by the Low-country Affiliate of the South Carolina Association of Volunteer Administrators (LASCAVA) as Volunteer Administrator of the year for 2005.





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