(Columbia, S.C.) Attorney General Alan Wilson announced his Office has filed three appeal documents with the state Supreme Court in connection with the Speaker Bobby Harrell matter.
The documents include:
1) Notice of Appeal in the Matter of State Grand Jury Investigation #M2014-237
The notice is to advise the Court that a full appeal will be forthcoming. The appeal briefs will present the merits of this Office’s appeal.
Attorney General Wilson writes in the notice of appeal: “The Attorney General, in his official capacity as the Chief Prosecuting Officer of the State of South Carolina and as legal adviser to the State Grand Jury, hereby appeals the Order in this matter issued by the Honorable L. Casey Manning on May 12, 2014…”
2) Motion to Expedite
Due to the importance of the matter, the motion requests the Court to expedite the briefing schedule and the submission or calling for oral argument of the appeal.
Attorney General Wilson writes in the motion: “This motion is made because of the weighty public interest at stake from the unprecedented and expansive nature of [Judge Manning’s] order…” Also, “The order… flatly treads upon the Attorney General’s constitutionally protected role as the prosecutor of crime.”
3) Petition for Supersedeas (i.e. Reversal) and Interim Relief
The petition sets forth in detail the reasons which the Attorney General believes warrant the Supreme Court’s reversal of Judge Manning’s order, pending the appeal.
Attorney General Wilson writes in the petition: “The rule of law should apply equally to everyone, without privilege or immunity for anyone.” Also, “The lower court’s order is unprecedented in American law and unsupported by any known legal authority. The order interferes with, impedes, and stops dead in its tracks an ongoing criminal investigation of public corruption by a State Grand Jury properly impaneled….” Also, “The General Assembly did not intend for the fox to guard the henhouse.”
The documents are available to the public on the Office’s website www.scag.gov.
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“The rule of law should apply equally to everyone, without privilege or immunity for anyone.”
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uh, oh… he might actually mean it!
Well, UNLESS… you are a friend of Alan’s dad and a member of the Lexington Crime Ring, a member of the Columbia-Richland Crime Ring, a member of The Lott Family, …
The woodchuck keeps a chuckin the wood
Hey Bobby, Alan might just end up with YOUR “ass on a stick”. Funny how that works, huh?
The Fox to Guard the Henhouse? …is that some legal term? …..hahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!……WOW, aren’t you impressed? …I’ll bet that the Supreme Court is really going to be impressed with that terminology….uh uh uh …..Your Honor, I say Your Honor uh uh uh …what we have here is the “The Fox Guarding the Henhouse”……Listen to me Your Honor, I say listen to me, YOUR HONOR, LISTEN TO ME! ….THE FOX IS GUARDING THE HENHOUSE!
Voice from the Supreme Court, NEXT CASE PLEASE, Mr. Wilson, you may step down and uh uh uh ….the backdoor is at the rear of the building. ….Wilson: “Thank you, Your Honor.
And the wheels of justice keep turning.
Off With Manning’s Head. He is doomed either way. He will go down with Harrell. Try to stop it….hahahaahahahahahahahaahaaaaaaa!!!!!
I am not condoning violence, but Bobby is lucky vigilantes have not smashed his face.
They came close. They put herpes looking sores above his upper lip that come and go.
Perhaps he was divinely smote with a pox.
A big city Columbia lawyer went duck hunting in rural South Carolina. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s field on the other side of a fence.
As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked the lawyer what he was doing.
The lawyer responded, “I shot a duck and it fell into this field, and now I’m going to retrieve it.”
The old farmer replied. “This is my property, and your not coming over here.”
The indignant lawyer replied. “I’m one of the best trial lawyers in Columbia, and if you don’t let me get that duck, I’ll sue you and take everything that you own.
The old farmer smiled and said, “Apparently, you don’t know how we do things here in rural South Carolina. We settle small disagreements like this, with the South Carolina Three Kick Rule.”
The lawyer asked, “What is the South Carolina Three Kick Rule?”
The farmer replied, “Well, first I kick you three times and then you kick me three times, and so on, back and forth until someone gives up.”
The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom.
The old farmer slowly gets down from the tractor and walked up to the city fella. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy work boot into the lawyer’s groin, which dropped him to his knees.
His second kick nearly ripped the nose off his face.
The lawyer was flat on his belly, when the farmer’s third kick to a kidney nearly causing him to give up, but didn’t.
The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet and said, “Okay, you old man, now it’s my turn.”
The old farmer smiled and said,
“Naw, I give up, You can keep the duck!”
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HARRELL FIRES BACK
“Harrell fired back Tuesday, saying that Wilson should appoint a special prosecutor to look into what he calls the attorney general’s own potential Ethics Act violations. The Post and Courier reported in April that Wilson had accepted thousands in over-the-limit campaign contributions and that amendments to his campaign finance reports showed dozens of previously undisclosed donors. Wilson’s campaign has been amending reports and returning contributions that were over the limit, including a lobbyist’s contribution.”
WHAT HARRELL SAID ABOUT WILSON: …”If he actually believes what he wrote in this filing, then he himself is guilty of over 30 criminal violations, including accepting money from lobbyists, accepting money above the legal limit and failing to report a number of items,” Harrell said. “He ought to have a special prosecutor take a look at this.”
BAM! …BA-BAM!….BA-BA-BA-BAM!….
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140520/PC1603/140529949
Here’s what I don’t understand: if Wilson truly suspects Harrell of criminal activity, why doesn’t he he get an arrest warrant like one would do for any non-legislator criminal? It’s fine to keep saying that Manning’s decision makes legislators immune to the law, but any action that really does cross from ethical to criminal should be easily prosecuted in alternate ways, right?
“Harrell fired back Tuesday, saying that Wilson should appoint a special prosecutor to look into what he calls the attorney general’s own potential Ethics Act violations.”….”Wilson had accepted thousands in over-the-limit campaign contributions and that amendments to his campaign finance reports showed dozens of previously undisclosed donors. Wilson’s campaign has been amending reports and returning contributions that were over the limit, including a lobbyist’s contribution.”
“If he (Wilson) actually believes what he wrote in this filing, then he himself is guilty of over 30 criminal violations, including accepting money from lobbyists, accepting money above the legal limit and failing to report a number of items,” Harrell said. “He ought to have a special prosecutor take a look at this.”