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Upstate Interstate Shooting: South Carolina’s ‘Justice’ System Strikes Again
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The reason no one is listening to you “bang the drum” is because that is all you are doing. You do not have any real solutions, you just whine about the judicial system. But you also cherry pick situations without any understanding of the law. If you were doing your job, you would know there are far more people being held without bond or with unfair bonds. But that doesn’t bait the clicks, does it?
You seem to think accusations are all that should matter. Someone accused of wrongdoing gets no due process, just taken straight to jail. That is a position that loses a lot of credibility when I go look at the public index describing the lawsuit against you. It looks pretty clear you are absolutely in the wrong. But your lawyers are pulling out all kinds of smoke and mirrors to help you avoid responsibility for what you did.
Due process for you, but not for us, huh?
Small bonds are the issue not only in South Carolina but all over the country. A $12,500 bond for charges of kidnapping and domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature?
People who bring up something that is not relevant (whatever you are accusing Will of doing) lose all credibility with me.
Just out of sheer curiosity, what do you think Will should be doing more of? I mean let’s face it, the “news” media in SC is subpar at best who fill their positions with interns who can barely use spellcheck because thats the only way they can keep the lights on. And is there a recent case against Will I am not aware of or are you referring to the case from 2005? I am not professing to be nearly as smart as you regarding the law but from my perspective, the latest bond was extremely low and he should have never been released. Also, you seem to be aware of a lot of activities in that judicial circuit, so can you confirm he was allowed to leave his home to attend a graduation ceremony when all of this went down? Do you have a website that I can visit to see all of the people you reference that have been treated unfairly by the system by not being offered bond or issued unfair bonds? I would genuinely like to read more regarding those cases. Thank you in advance for your time to respond. I truly appreciate learning more about just how bad the system is in SC , but prefer facts that can be verified and not opinions.
You are missing some important information.
When he came up for bond in March 2025, this same victim showed up in court, said she wasn’t afraid of him, said the alleged domestic violence never happened, and asked for him to be released. The solicitor fought hard to keep him in jail.
Aye, there is the rub! Nobody wants to bring that up as it might be construed as “victim blaming”, but the sad fact is, that victims often ARE to blame.
People seem to forget that the alleged victims are a big part of the process. If they are uncooperative or change their story about the incident, the system breaks down. Her mourners should have convinced her to leave him and assist in his prosecution. I’m not saying that some in the judiciary aren’t extremely lenient when it comes to punishment for crimes and that most of them are former defense attorneys who acquiesce to their pals in the defense bar, but that’s a conversation for another thread.
Most judges are not former defense attorneys.
Name them
I’m happy to do it so there will at least be some accurate information on this website for once.
I will go through the list statewide if you are too lazy to look on the website. But in Greenville, there are four judges. Salvini was a defense lawyer, Morgan, Fant, and Dunbar were not. None of those four have a reputation as being soft on criminal defendants. In Spartanburg, none of them were except Kelly who is also certainly not soft on criminal defendants. In Pickens, Gravely was a criminal defense lawyer but also is not known for taking it easy on criminal defendants.
So of the 10 or so upstate judges, 3 were former defense lawyers at some point in their career but their rulings do not support your claim. Because your claim, like every claim Will makes, is false and not based on any reality.
The comments here are typical of affluent people not affected by low-life crinimals. I think many of the commenters opinions would change when they or someone they know is a victim of these repeat offenders that should’ve been in jail.
Or trial lawyers or legislators
Katie everyone is affected by low life criminals. The fact is that oftentimes the victims and /or their families and friends are unwilling to cooperate in the prosecution. They don’t want to get involved or be “snitches”. Its a sad but true reality. Couple that with greedy lawyers and judges who are beholden to their puppet masters and it hurts the average citizen. The law abiding people want more prisons, real punishment with long sentences and to be treated with respect. Prison is for punishment not rehabilitation, we don’t need to slip back into the 70s mindset.
Great work here. Literally every sentence you wrote is untrue. It must be so freeing to be anonymous.
Katie everyone is affected by low life criminals. – Absolutely true, if even only in the cost of insurance. According to a UofChicago study, the financial cost of crime in the US may be as high as $5,800,000,000,000 (5.8 trillion) annually. Non-monetary “costs include fear and anxiety associated with crime, time lost due to avoidance or recovery, and other intangible losses.
The fact is that oftentimes the victims and /or their families and friends are unwilling to cooperate in the prosecution. – Again, absolutely true, according to the OJP, as many as 59% of victims of violent crimes DON’T report the offense to police
They don’t want to get involved or be “snitches”. Its a sad but true reality. – Again, absolutely true, according to a BJS report, 13% of victims don’t report crime out of fear of reprisal (snitches get stitches) or of getting the perpetrator in trouble
Couple that with greedy lawyers and judges who are beholden to their puppet masters and it hurts the average citizen. We’ll just let this one sit with a few names – Sam Mendenhall, James Ferguson, Carmen Mullins…
The law-abiding people want more prisons, real punishment with long sentences and to be treated with respect. – Again (are we seeing a trend here Joshua?) absolutely true, according to an Open Society Foundation study, “…the public favors dealing with the roots of crime over strict sentencing by a two-to-one margin, 65 percent to 32 percent…”
Prison is for punishment not rehabilitation, we don’t need to slip back into the 70s mindset. possibly true, I’ll leave this one as a matter of opinion, but the DOJ says that severity of sentence isn’t the huge deterrent that most would assume (even though it’s real hard to commit a crime against society from behind bars). They go on to say that certainty of getting caught and going to prison (getting caught, adjudged and quickly punished) is a HUGE deterrent. The study points out the need to follow the 6th amendment and to cut out a lot of the bovine excreta allowed in the criminal judicial system (like legislative immunity)
Thanks for the research colonel, Joshua is too busy stacking his $$$ to look at facts. Better check again on Salvini and Dunbar and their sentencing trends. Absolutely light on criminals. Pyle, Patterson, McGowan et al sentenced criminals to actual prison. Even Eppes was less lenient than this latest crop
I am not sure what your problem is with me. I know you once threatened to report me to ODC and never did, but it seems pretty personal. Hard to say when you are hiding behind initials. I have other stuff to do today (I wish it was stacking $$$) but happy to address these points:
1. You are misrepresenting the U of Chicago study. Read the part about uneven distribution.
2.
Sorry that got cut off and it won’t let me edit comments:
2. Your statistics involve people not reporting crime, which is altogether different from not cooperating. But the state can prosecute without cooperation and often does. Either way, why do you get to tell a victim they are a victim?
3. I only recognize one name on that list, but you are going to need far more examples to claim the whole system is run by greedy lawyers and judges.
4. Read that sentence again carefully – I think your study says the same thing I am saying
5. You’re right this is opinion, so I should not have said it was untrue. Sorry.
Joshua what crimes other than murder, DV, environmental crimes and drug violations can be prosecuted without victim cooperation? Im sure there are others but i cant think of many. No victim , no crime isn’t that how the old saying goes.
Surprisingly, prosecutors have found ways to prosecute a wide variety of assaults without the victim cooperating. With the crimes you listed, that covers the vast majority of “victim” crimes. I am not saying it is easy, just that it happens a lot.
My Grandfather was the Sheriff and Chief Deputy Sheriff in Spartanburg County back in the 40’s and 50’s. He once told me that the most dangerous arrests were domestic violence, because when you arrested the spouse, most times the victim turned on the officers who made the arrest. Many officers were injured by the victim when removing the perp from the home.