All that money won’t keep him from going to hell though.

The GOP, party of law and order. Make me laugh.

Imagine if some poor black kid with a public defender had done this?

It’s like Sanfraud. Still not even an impeachment bill on the floor! If a Dem like Jim Hodges had done what Sanfraud did the Republican who contol the state legislature would have already impeached him, removed him from office and sent the Mayflower trucks to the Guv’s Mansion.

I just do not understand why Jesus joined the GOP.

Give my a effin’ break.

Really? I do not want to downplay the tragedy nor defend the guy who was clearly wrong in so many ways – but there was a similar accident a few years ago in Conestee but the driver was poor. I knew the next door neighbors to this accident. There was no trial, no charges – just written off as an accident, insurance paid whatever, end of story. I think a case could be made here that the trial was entirely BECAUSE he was rich.

I want to be clear here, I am IN FAVOR of him being but on trial, especially if alcohol was involved – just sayin’

The family of the victim should have gotten compensation & justice.

Just because they didn’t go to court, it’s assumed they’re happy with the settlement only?

Any way you slice or dice it, just another example of who exactly our justice system works for.

I bet if it had been some poor ole’ regular joe of a guy they would have been burned at the stake.

There was no evidence that he touched his brakes prior to the crash. He had just left a wedding reception where he consumed alcohol. He was NOT given a breathalyzer test.

The retired judge mentioned specifically that the fact he had donated money to charity was a primary reason for the sentence given.

If this doesn’t prove that there is a rich man’s justice and a poor man’s justice, I don’t know what does.

You have COMPLETELY missed the signifcance of this story FITS.

…”According to his pleading, McGuire’s boss, Patton Adams, the director of the S.C. Commission on Indigent Defense, asked McGuire to drop his request to add Butler to the defense team.

“McGuire said in the pleading that he understood the request was initiated by Jefferson and relayed to Adams through S.C. Supreme Court Justice Jean Toal.

“It was further relayed that failure to waive the issue would anger Judge Jefferson, Jean Toal and the rest of the South Carolina Supreme Court,” one of McGuire’s pleadings said.

Toal declined comment Wednesday, and a message left at Jefferson’s office was not returned.”

This story was completely ignored The State.

See http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/sep/10/case-has-twists-turns-on-way-to-trial/

Good intel! We’re not saying the guy isn’t an asshole who deserves to spend some quality time behind bars, it just seems like the state dropped the ball on this one.

Send us all the corruption you can, btw!

We love exposing it here on FITS!

-FITS

A retired Judge was selected by Queen Jean to hear the case …the ultimate in Judge shopping here… as what ever happened the Judge is already retired.

The culprit is a well known and many times arrested rich asshole who was bent over by the local legal mafia and emptied of all available cash so that Judge Wilkins could be compenasated for all the time he sat on the bench and protected UpState interests to the detriment of his bank account.

Simple as that – the family got a large amount of cash and has fled the State as they were advised to do.

Meanwhile the asshole has two more trials on unrelated charges that can be bolstered for jail time to appease the masses and a tough divorce proceedings to have to sit through.

This is how the Greenville Bar rolls but glad to hear that Greenville is finally reading the only muckraking site in the State. Keep an eye out for more corruption coming to light in Greenville as the Real Estate Barons come unglued and more government crats find more and more missing money.