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South Carolina Solicitor Responds To Criticism
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Just an opinion from an outsider looking in-SC must get the legislature out of the judicial branch. It is absurd and a huge stumbling block to justice in your state.
Byron Gipson will not go there; but I will, come what may.
Why is no one holding Leon Lott accountable for his siren-happy deputies and their bad driving which killed at least one Sumter innocent man?
Why is no one holding Leon Lott accountable for the very poor training of his deputies and for his refusal to equipt their street cars with metal detectors to collect shell casings from shooting scenes while he spends lavishly to promote himself, including on this website?
Why is no one holding Leon Lott accountable for inciting riots and stabbings at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center (“ASGDC”) as his secret evil plan to get the gangs to kill each other inside ASGDC because Leon Lott was too lazy and/or too dumb to control the gang problem on the streets?
Why is Leon Lott himself out on the streets every day when he ACTIVELY trains his deputy to lie under oath, that is commit the CRIME of perjury?
Why is Corey/Cory Lamont Curry out on the streets after being PHOTOGRAPHED in the act of loudly threatening to rape Dr. Marie Faltas?
Why was that Curry allowed to continue his drug activities from as early as 2000 (when he was convicted of PWID-crack cocaine) to at least as late as 2016 (when he was caught with over a kilo of marijuana)?
It is not because black judges are too lenient on black criminal defendants. The opposite is true. Black judges practice what I call black-on-black sentencing, which, in my opinion free from false modesty, is a white-collar form of black-on-black crime. The denial of equal protection of the laws, the harsher sentencing of a group to pander to a more powerful group, is perjury of the judicial oath of office to treat all similarly-situated parties alike.
Leon Lott enjoys free reign because he hires the sons of white judges and does favors for other judges who have no children for Lott to hire.
As far as I know, U.S. Circuit Judge Marvin Quattlebaum’s son and Dentsville Magistrate Newsom’s son are deputies of Leon Lotts; but those jurists and others do not (of their own initiative) disclose those facts or recuse themselves when matters involving Lott come before them.
But it is not only white federal judges who do not disclose possible conflicts or received favors. And no, I am not talking about Clarence Thomas or Sonia Sotomayor or Samuel Alito.
I am talking about the much vaunted J. Michelle Childs, who, when on state circuit court, sat on at least one residential landlord-tenant case and made an atrocious pro-landlord ruling WITHOUT disclosing that she herself owned several residential rental properties at the time.
How many tenants did Leon Lott brutally evict for Landlady Childs and her mother, something Thomas?
After that, J. Michelle Childs had the cold-blooded hypocrisy to go and speak to Duke Law School’s May 2022 commencement and praise the graduating students for having fought for “the wrongly convicted and the unjustly evicted” without saying that she herself got people wrongly convicted and unjustly evicted, with Leon Lott’s squad probably undertaking the evictions.
What other important eviction did Leon Lott’s squad carry out as a favor to ANOTHER federal judge’s second wife’s BFF?
One that involves another white collar crime. Stay, God willing, tuned.
Are you speaking of Mr. Harper being the Sumter Co man ? That was a Sumter Co Deputy, not Richland. That would be Mr. Dennis who needs to be accountable, for once. The remaining things, I don’t know much of.
I was speaking of Richland County Sheriff’s Deputy Mickens whose service vehicle struck and killed a Sumter County man.
Police officers are notorious for bad driving and being siren-happy even when they are not going to real emergencies, sometimes even just to lunch or to meet a colleague for gossip.
Yes, power corrupts; and it corrupts even more when supposed crime fighters commit crimes themselves in the name of fighting crime. This is when the rest of us are most at risk.
Thanks for the attention and God bless.
Most of South Carolina officials in authority positions are as corrupt as they come. Good luck getting to the “bottom” of it. Got to love that “old money”.
Yes, power is most likely to corrupt when supposed crime fighters commit crimes themselves in the name of fighting crime.
That is when the rest of us are most at risk.
Thanks for the attention and God bless.
This interruption to the line of this post is relevant to FITS’ rabid push for mandatory minimums of atrocious lengths but no proportionality or benefit to society.
I suspect FITS is somehow paid or sponsored by the victims’ advocate or the private prisons industry that is encroaching on South Carolina as in other sates unless the U.S. Supreme Court, God willing, puts some brakes on it.
Remember the Cash-for-Kids scandal of Pennsylvania Judge Ciavarella?
For who else can possibly benefit from putting a 17-year old in for 15 years for burglarly to steal ONE video game?
Mitchell Logan Hinson is now 30 and apparently has no family support and no skills he acquired in his 15 x 0.85 minus pre-trial time = 12.75 years.
His story, which I looked up because the Court of Appeals’ decision on his case came out last week, moved me for two reasons.
First. as a 17 year-old he was required to make a choice of taking a plea or going to trial to face a mandatory minimum, which he got.
Second, the assistant solicitor who tried Hinson later quit, went into private practice, but was later suspended for a year for taking fees and not doing the promised work for clients.
Again, the current system of HUGE mandatory minimums makes even the prosecutors (and possibly judges) engaged in enforcing them miserable; and they please only the extremists who think the solution to every problem is to throw prisons or deportations at it.
But the young man is to be, God willing, released BEFORE there is time to reform the sentencing codes. Can someone help him start a clean after-prison life?
God bless.
I just posted this on a televised statement of Leon Lott’s. It is too good to not share here. So, here it is:
Okay, Leon Lott, what were YOUR deputy AND HIS WIFE doing in a gang-related house? And off-duty hours at that. And why did they go there in a marked service vehicle? If they were visiting family or friends who just HAPPEN to be gang-related, the least your deputy and his wife could have done is use their personal vehicle.
While I pray for every injured person’s speedy recovery, a plausible alternate scenario comes to mind: YOUR deputy and his wife sided with one gang and were blatant about it to the point of going to that house in a marked service vehicle to signal that house was under YOUR wing. The rival gang shot your deputy and his wife on purpose to send a message that protection from Leon Lott is no protection at all.
Richland County needs to be protected from YOUR manipulations, not to be protected BY you. The gangs problem flourished during, and because of, YOUR tenure.
So, stop playing the helpless victim! YOU are victimizing us with your hypocritical incompetence as much as the gangs are victimizing the entire community with their brazenness.
Remember? Your much vaunted apprentice, Randy Scott, who rose to Columbia Police Chief, was himself arrested for drug use.