Attorney General Alan Wilson and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Yasmeen Ebbini Klein, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of Columbia, for Respondent.

Hubert Brown was convicted of first-degree burglary and attempted murder. After his convictions and sentences were affirmed on direct appeal, Brown applied for and was granted post-conviction relief ("PCR"). This Court granted the State's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision in Brown v. State, Op. No. 2020-UP-144 (S.C. Ct. App. filed August. 19, 2020), which affirmed the grant of PCR. The State contends the Court of Appeals erred in holding trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective in failing to object to a jury instruction and failing to object to the admission of evidence and testimony from expert witnesses.

John C. Hayes, IV, Hayes Law, Catherine Dunn Meehan, Steinberg Law Firm, Jesse Sanchez, Jesse Sanchez Law, all of Charleston, and Michael J. Jordan, Steinberg Law Firm, of Goose Creek, for Petitioners. James Lynn Werner, Jenna K. McGee and Katon E Dawson, Jr.. of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP, of Columbia, R. Tripett Boineau, III, Heath McAlvin Stewart, III, John Adam Ribock, of McAngus, Goudelock & Courie, LLC, of Columbia, Carmen Ganjehsani, James H. Elliott, Jr., Frances Heyward Grimball, Richardson, Plowden & Robinson, PA, of Columbia, Michael E. Wright, Robertson Hollingsworth Manos & Rahn, LLC, of Charleston, David Cooper Cleveland, Trey Matthew Nicolette, Clawson and Staubs, LLC, of Charleston, Rogers E. Harrell, III, Brent M. Boyd, Timothy J. Newton, Murphy & Grantland, PA, of Columbia, Alan R. Belcher, Jr., Elizabeth F. Wieters, Hall Booth Smith, PC, of Mount Pleasant, Christine Companion Varnado, The Seibels Law Firm, of Charleston, Erin D. Dean, Tupper, Grimsley, Dean & Canaday, PA, of Beaufort, Stephen L. Brown, Catherine H. Chase, Clement Rivers, LLP, of Charleston, Preston B. Dawkins, Jr., Aiken Bridges Elliott Tyler & Saleeby, PA, of Florence and Jenny C. Honeycutt, Best Honeycutt, PA, of Charleston, for Respondents.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Damico v. Lennar Carolinas, LLC, 430 S.C. 188, 844 S.E.2d 66 (Ct. App. 2020).

Appellate Defender Susan Barber Hackett, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Assistant Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., of Columbia, and Solicitor, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit William Walter Wilkins, III, for Respondent.

In this appeal from Petitioner's conviction of homicide by child abuse, two issues are before the Court: 1) whether the trial court erred in admitting Petitioner's statements despite her intoxicated state, and 2) whether the admission of lab results were testimonial in nature, which would have implicated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation.

Robert David Proffitt, of Proffitt and Cox, LLP, of Columbia, for Petitioner. James Keith Roberts, of S.C. Workers' Compensation Commission, and Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani, of Richardson Plowden, P.A., both of Columbia, for Respondent.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Morris v. BB&T Corp., Op. No. 2020-UP-235 (S.C. Ct. App. withdrawn, substituted, and refiled Nov. 4, 2020). The Court will determine whether a calendaring mistake constitutes good cause for purposes of reinstating an appeal and whether the Commission erred in failing to consider that appeal on the merits.

Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Elizabeth Franklin-Best, P.C., of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody J. Brown and Assistant Attorney General W. Joseph Maye, of Columbia, and Solicitor, First Judicial Circuit, David M. Pascoe, Jr., of Orangeburg, for Respondent.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Sanders, Op. No. 2020-UP-237 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Aug. 12, 2020).