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‘Cozy Corruption’: Another South Carolina Judicial Selection Scandal
State lawmakers continue to abuse the system… and erode public trust.
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Speaking of Bentley Price the SC Court of Appeals just posted two cases in which he granted Summary Judgment to his friends were Reversed. In Appellate Case 2022-000231 (Forum Benefits) the Court stated: “we are compelled to note the trial judge’s (Bentley Price) behavior, particularly in taking a party’s witness to his chambers without any counsel present, raised at a minimum the appearance of impropriety.” The court made this point after acknowledging that he is no longer a judge. Forcing witnesses and parties to his chambers without counsel is exactly what he did in the Lujac case as to the Plaintiff. Guess who was counsel for the Defendants in that case? Yep, Alice Paylor the same attorney who has written several of Bentley Price’s Summary Judgment Orders near all of which that were appealed have been reversed! The other issued opinion reversing in part Bentley Price is 2022-000328. Hopefully the SC Court of Appeals will feel “compelled” to alert the SC Bar.
Bruce Wallace is the best candidate in that race. Pretty easy choice.
A upstate judge , A.K. ,routinely is as lenient as Price and flaunts the rules and Supreme Court orders on a regular basis. His buddy, the now former chief justice always looked out for him. Thanks goodness that he has reached retirement age and is off the bench at years end. Let’s hope that the current chief justice uses his usual sound judgement and denies him retired status and keeps him off the bench for good.