On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | Jan 21, 2020 | Violent Crimes
A 53-year-old South Carolina woman was sentenced to spend 25 years in prison on Jan. 16 after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter. The woman originally faced a raft of charges including homicide for poisoning her husband in July 2018. The judge who handed down...
On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | Dec 2, 2019 | Violent Crimes
Five men have been charged in connection with the murder of a University of South Carolina student. The 22-year-old Columbia man was shot and killed on March 26 in his off-campus residence. The arrests, which were announced by the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s...
On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | Oct 17, 2019 | Violent Crimes
A South Carolina teenager was recently sentenced to over 20 years in prison for stabbing his mother to death in 2015. He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in early October. Media reports say the defendant, who is autistic, was just 13 years old when he was...
On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | Oct 1, 2019 | Violent Crimes
On Sept. 28, South Carolina investigators arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly shooting a mail carrier to death on Sept. 23. The death occurred in Andrews in Williamsburg County. The Williamsburg County Sheriff’s Office reports that the defendant is...
On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | Sep 17, 2019 | Violent Crimes
Some types of violent crime are rising in South Carolina and across the country, according to the 2019 National Crime Victimization Survey. The report was issued by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. Researchers asked people if they were...
On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | Sep 5, 2019 | Violent Crimes
A South Carolina jury deliberated for a little over three hours Aug. 27 before finding a 24-year-old man guilty of the 2014 murder of Lexington County teenager. The judge then sentenced the man to the state mandatory minimum of 30 years in prison. He was given a...
On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | Jul 9, 2019 | Violent Crimes
A 33-year-old man told a judge that he shot and killed a man inside a South Carolina Walmart store because a third individual wronged him. The admission was made during a July 6 bond hearing when the victim’s father asked the man why he had killed his son. The...
On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | May 15, 2019 | Violent Crimes
Media outlets in South Carolina have reported that three people have been charged in connection with the 2018 murder of a 25-year-old man. A Greenville County Sheriff’s Office representative said deputies believe that a 37-year-old woman and two men aged 24 and...
On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | May 1, 2019 | Violent Crimes
A South Carolina teenager is facing homicide, obstruction of justice and weapons possession charges in connection with the death of a 22-year-old man. According to media reports, the 17-year-old Summerville resident has been denied bond and remains in custody at the...
On behalf of William G. Yarborough Attorney at Law | Apr 3, 2019 | Violent Crimes
A 24-year-old man was charged with the death of a 21-year-old college student in South Carolina. The woman was reportedly at the Bird Dog bar on the night of March 29 when she hailed a ride from Uber after getting separated from her friends. When a black Chevy Impala...
