Hearing Set In ‘Green Pond Massacre’

I had no idea Ms. Lyons reported on my attempted intervention in the case; and what I wrote sounds better when selected and quoted by Ms. Lyons, whom I belatedly thank for the attention.
A correction, though: I was never actually granted the status of a substitute plaintiff. I was only a movant to become a substitute plaintiff.
As such my appeal could not have been from the decision to release the call but only from the decision to deny me substitute plaintiff status. Had I won that appeal and been granted substitute plaintiff status, I could then have argued in district court against the decision to release the calls.
There is a conflict of decisions which still remains to be resolved with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruling that notice is not consent and an ancient case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vaguely equating notice with consent.
My focus was, and is, that release of calls from South Carolina county detention facilities is a question capable of repetition but evading review due to the theoretical short sojourn of inmates in those facilities. The inmates in such facilities are either: (1) pre-trial detainees denied bond (or before being granted bond) thus presumed innocent no matter horror of the allegations, or (2) serving short sentences upon conviction of petty crimes in municipal or county courts; and such sentences are typically not suspended pending appeal.
In reality, however, pre-trial detention may last years in South Carolina; and appeals of petty crime convictions DO occasionally get granted.
So, in my opinion free from false humility, the loss of privacy (not only of the inmate but of that inmate’s family and/or friends on the other end of the call) is too high a sacrifice for a presumed-innocent-later-proven-actually-innocent person to lay at the altar of freedom of the press.
And mistakes DO happen, as in the cited instance of a mistaken release of a call between Alex Murdaugh (who may yet turn out to have been mistakenly convicted in the ending of Paul’s and Maggie’s lives) and his lawyer, Jim Griffin.
Once lost, privacy cannot be regained. Freedom of the press should never be denied; but it can and should, under certain circumstances, be deferred.

Really, one last attempt here. After this, other media outlets or maybe more principled propagandists, such as Wes Donahue:
There is no market place of ideas about perjury being a crime.
It is a crime for which, incidentally as early as the Hammurabi code and as late as the early 20th Century, the death penalty (which I oppose) was imposed.
Nor can there be a debate that a prosecutor who suborns perjury should be held to account.
Indeed, the U.S. Supreme Court has always recognized perjury and lies about facts as exceptions to the rights of free speech.
Yet, while claiming to fight for justice and accountability, not only to you glorify a perjury-suborning prosecutor, you refuse to run this comment of mine:
Will Folks, at 1:02:07, you crown Heather Weiss (“Hatchet-for-Hire Heather” in my book) “a competent prosecutor” and continue at 1:02:14 to class her among “some great lawyers,” after I repeatedly provided you transcript and record evidence that, for years, Weiss received from the City of Columbia $70K/year IN ADDITION TO HER SALARY as assistant to then-5th-Circuit-Solicitor Barney Giese, and to John Meadors after Barney Giese stepped down, SOLELY to bring criminal charges, justified or not, against the political or civil-litigation-adversaries of the City of Columbia itself or of its officials.
I now see clearly that in inability to advertise on your outlets, or even pay the monthly subscription to it, makes what Hatchet-for-Hire Heather did to me unworthy of you condemnation, or even investigation.
Just in case you forgot, that very Weiss had, in 2001 convicted one Corey/Cory Lamont Curry of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and got him sentenced to five years. In 2009, that very Curry returned to the vicinity of his 2001 PWID arrest, threatened to rape me, snatch my camera, and use it to photograph himself in the act of raping me, then stood in my parking lot publicly masturbating at me and later shooting me the bird with both his hands.
What did Hatchet-for-Hire Heather do about my photo-documented reports to law enforcement about Curry’s acts? Hatchet-for-Hire Heather had ME falsely arrested under FALSE PRETEXT that I harassed that supposedly-poor, hapless Curry by photographing him in the act of making lewd gestures at me.
Why did Hatchet-for-Hire do that? Because I was suing the City of Columbia to re-route sewer pipes improperly but clandestinely placed on a vacant lot of land Mother and I had purchased earlier that year unaware that the illegal sewer lines made it unbuildable until the sewer pipes were moved.
Did Hatchet-for-Hire stop at falsely arresting me? No, no, NO. When she found out that I will not knuckle under, she began scheming to cause my death in one of the most gruesome ways imaginable. She knew that in 1980 I had had thyroid surgery in Chapel Hill, NC, and that metal surgical staples were placed in my neck instead of absorbable surgical sutures to stop profuse bleeding. That was before MRIs were invented. Knowing that, Hatchet for Hire began pushing for a brain MRI as a condition of my bond. That, God forbade, would have cause the powerful magnetic field to violently pull the metal staples out of my neck and tear arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures in the process.
Did she stop after I bonded out and later, thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER did for myself what Murdaugh’s team could not do for him: prevent a jury from returning a wrongful conviction? No, no, NO. Instead of dismissing the false case against me or giving me the speedy retrial for which I was pushing, Hatchet-for-Hire actually filed a motion to find me, ME, who dazzled judges with my brilliance, mentally incompetent to continue representing myself, and get this, because of the thyroid surgery I had in 1980.
That is all in OFFICIAL transcripts.
As is the fact that Heather Weiss LIED to Judge Clifton Newman about that Corey/Cory Curry’s criminal record after Weiss had listed Curry as one of her witness but declined to call him and I wanted him as a hostile witness in my defense.
Hatchet-for-Hire Heather Weiss suborned 365 perjuries from one of the false witnesses against me. Yet, not John Meadors, not Alan Wilson, not Clifton Newman, not John Kittredge, not anyone does anything about it after being provided with the annotated transcript OBJECTIVELY proving those perjuries and subornation.
Well, the other “great” lawyers Laurie Taylor and Shaun Kent are provided with a copy of this comment and that annotated transcript; and they owe it to their clients, if not to me or to the honor of the profession, to bring Heather Weiss’ past unethical conduct to light.