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South Carolina
Judicial Branch
Court of Appeals - Roster of Cases for Hearing

   
The summary below each case is prepared to offer lawyers and the public a general overview of what issues are included in a case which will be argued. The summary is not a limit on what issues a party to a case may present at oral argument.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Courtroom I
(Court convenes at 10:00 a.m.)
 10:00 a.m. (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5)  
17421   The State, Respondent v. Samuel Whitner, Petitioner.

Christopher Scalzo, Assistant Public Defender, of Greenville, and Robert M. Dudek, Deputy Chief Appellate Defender for Capital Appeals, Office of Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Robert M. Arial, Solicitor, and Christine Sustakovitch, Assistant Solicitor, both of Greenville, and Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., all of Columbia, for Respondent.

In this criminal case, Whitner moves the Court to suppress an audio recording under section 17-30-110 of South Carolina's Wiretap Act.

 11:30 a.m. (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5)  
16731   The State, Respondent v. Richard Stegall, Appellant.

Scott David Robinson, of Greenville, for Appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, of Columbia, and Solicitor Robert Mills Ariail, of Greenville, for Respondent.

Richard Horace Stegall appeals his conviction and sentence for voluntary manslaughter, arguing the trial judge committed reversible error by entering the jury room during deliberations without counsel for the State or Stegall.