Catherine Templeton: Stopping The Weaponization Of South Carolina’s Judicial System

With single-digit exceptions, ALL lawyers, judges, politicians, university professors, and journalists, of both genders, races, and major political parties, in South Carolina, including Former-Secretary Templeton, are hypocrites because they know what was done, AND CONTINUES TO BE DONE, to Dr. Marie Faltas since 1993; and NO ONE has the courage or integrity to say or do anything about it.
If Ms. Templeton wants to be counted among the exceptions to hypocrisy and cowardice, she should fully inform herself (if she does not already know) of Dr. Faltas’ cases.
I should not have to repeat it here. Ms. Templeton should be able to Google it for herself and ask herself what conscience condones Dr. Faltas being denied the BASIC human right to speak for herself for having asked to sit for the SC Bar Exam without going to law school.
That is EXACTLY how the much vaunted Judge J. Wattis Waring, and Justice Jackson (the male one from World War II) did it: without law school.
Dr. Faltas was denied her BASIC human right to speak for herself because she had asked SC’s Supreme Court to make a moral statement against those who burned Coptic Churches and beheaded Coptic Orthodox pilgrims in 2016 and 2017. Those same attackers of the Copts or groups like those attackers are the bragging perpetrators of 7 October 2023.
Yet, no lawyer, judge, or politician, in the length and breadth of South Carolina had the decency to ask South Carolina’s Supreme Court to reconsider what that court itself labeled as “not pass[ing] constitutional muster.”
Why? Because, again with single-digit exceptions, EVERY lawyer, judge, journalist, professor, and politician, in South Carolina makes decisions based on self-interest, not principle.
And there is no interest Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Christians can serve for any South Carolina lawyer, judge, journalist, professor, or politician.
Indeed, Dr. Marie Faltas, in a fair world, would have been more qualified than Ms. Templeton herself to lead DHEC.
But it is not about qualifications any more than convictions or incarcerations are about guilt.
There is no advantage in hiring a Copt or exonerating one.
We are simply too few, too pacifist, and too poor, to bribe or threaten.
So, no one cares about us.
The ONE precious thing we can offer your wayward children is the example of TRUE Christian holiness.
But on one wants that either.
So, preacher rebuke thyself.

Remember when Catherine worked at the Port for 90 days? Her first act was removing all the doors on the executive floor, her second action was questioning why Willoughby and Hoefer was paid so much, her third action was not working there anymore. She got fired by the most corrupt people in government, for making reasonable points, and she didnt say a word. She just moved on and took it off her resume. She is a fraud and a coward who doesnt act when she has the chance and cant win an election to save her life.

I just tried to post this on Will Folk’s story today but it did not go through.
Here it is again:
FITS, I notice this time you did not repeat your fig-leaf that you still think Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) killed his wife and younger son but that RAM should get a new trial for it to be proven again beyond reasonable doubt and with constitutional t’s crossed and i’s dotted.
I also respect and encourage the father of (seven or eight?) children waking up after Thanksgiving and writing such a courageous, if repetitive, article.
BUT it is not that simple.
The REAL reason for resistance to a new trial for RAM is that a new trial will prove him INNOCENT and could, God willing, reveal the real killers, throw light on the facts that RAM’s so-called “client-victims” were NOT victims at all but were co-conspirators with RAM in presenting grossly-exaggerated, if not outright fraudulent, insurance claims, and that those claims would NOT have been paid out to such levels without the collusion of LOCAL insurance adjustors AND local supposed defense-lawyers hired by those big insurance companies with (physically and operationally) remote head-quarters.
Most significantly, the real truths about RAM would hinder, if not end, Alan Wilson’s gubernatorial ambitions if he really has any. After all, South Carolina’s (“SC”) Attorney General (“SCAG”) is not term-limited; but SC’s governor is.
As young as Alan Wilson is, and as ailing as his adoptive father is, Alan might not want to end is own political career by going into a dead-end (proven by Nikki Haley) term-limited state position instead of staying where he is or inheriting his adoptive father’s congressional seat.
And where SCAG Wilson is is literally worth millions. Many more millions than RAM’s so-called missing millions which are really not missing at all.
SCAG Wilson’s predecessors, including Charlie Condon, controlled millions in the State Insurance Reserve Fund’s farming out the state’s public business to private law firms AND in farming out the state’s huge civil cases to private law firms.
The latter civil cases (such as the tobacco litigation) were typically NOT started by SC but by other states with all SC having to do being signing its name to share in the settlements.
Since Condon’s time, the cases increased to include insulin pricing, the opioid litigation, etc. The one SC exclusive case was that nuclear waste case for which SCAG Wilson assigned two private law firms: one headed by his former lawyer, Ken Woodington, and the other by Jean Toal’s brother, Willoughby and Hoefer. The $75M SCAG Wilson gave those two private law firms instead of depositing them for SC’s tax-payers may still be in litigation; but all who will rule on it know on which side their bread is buttered.
And it seems that nuclear waste settlement was easier than the proverbial shooting of a pig in a poke. It was handed to SCAG Wilson on a proverbial silver platter by you-know-whom. And SCAG Wilson passed the largesse down to two private law firms, not to the tax-payers.
Back to RAM!
This oulet, FITSNews, then led by Malicious Mandy Matney (“MMM”) and her “work wife” Liz Farrell (with MMM’s now-puppy-dog husband David Moses completing the menage-a-trois behind the scenes) insisted JUST PRIOR to Paul and Maggie’s 7 June 2021 shootings that RAM and/or his son(s) had killed Sanctimonious Sandy Smith’s (“SSS”) son Stephen and Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland’s (“EBEB”) clients’ decedent Gloria Harriot Statterfield (“GHS”).
The Prosecution’s theory was that RAM killed Paul and Maggie to delay the discovery of RAM’s involvement with GHS and SSS’s son.
But the truth is: GHS did NOT die at Moselle as a result of her fall but died in hospital 24 days later from myocardial infarction MOST PROBABLY resulting from her chronic diabetes complicated by TERMINAL renal failure and neuropathies causing imbalance.
The truth ALSO is: GHS’s heirs KNEW of GHS’s pre-existing conditions, of the REAL cause of her death, AND of the settlement reached, long before Paul and Maggie’s demises. They PROBABLY knew they were initiating a fraudulent insurance claim when they agreed to hire Corey Fleming to sue RAM under that fabricated dogs story.
In MMM’s book, “Blood on Their Hands,” she discloses that she discovered the GHS settlement by digging into court records ALMOST A YEAR before 7 June 2021.
That email which the grown-man, fully-employed (NOT “boy”) Tony Satterfield sent RAM in April 2021 was a dual function fabrication of deniability for GHS’s heirs and entrapment for RAM.
MY conclusion, based on MY experience with malicious prosecutions (which, thank God, I ultimately defeated WITHOUT A LAWYER and in the courtroom of none other than Judge Clifton Newman, who is still to stand up for me and say Dr. Faltas does NOT deserve to have her BASIC human right to speak for herself denied just because she defended herself pro se successfully) and without false humility is: GHS’s heirs and their lawyer EBEB have NO PROBLEM pursuing their fraudulent insurance claim about GHS’s demise; their ONLY problem is that RAM kept all the loot to himself.
OR not all of it because, my conclusion based on OTHER observations, is that such OBVIOUSLY fraudulent claim would NOT have succeeded without the complicity of the LOCAL insurance defense lawyer(s) and the LOCAL insurance adjustor(s). These were NOT “charmed” by RAM’s theatrics but functioned on a strict quid-pro-quo basis. THAT is where RAM’s supposed “missing millions” went: kick backs to LOCAL insurance defense lawyers and adjustors.
And THAT is why no one wants to delve more deeply.
The media, main stream or mom-and-pop, rely on advertisements from personal injury lawyers. The latter know that they cannot get the huge settlements about which they boast in their advertisements without insurance defense lawyers OCCASIONALLY rolling over.
The most probative case, the proverbial “original sin,” is buried deep in Cory Fleming’s deposition in the federal case of Nautilus v. Murdaugh.
In August 2010 years ago, Cory and Eve Fleming’s then-minor only son needed some surgery. So, they had Fleming’s MATERNAL cousin Jean Fowlkes as a guardian to a name-redacted-child sue Eve Fleming for having directed that name-redacted-child to exit Eve’s SUV through the backdoor causing the child to fall and suffer severe injuries. The case is in Beaufort County 2012-CP-07-2826.
Whether that is really what happened to that child or not, the Flemings could not have sued their own automobile insurance for their own negligence towards their own child.
The issue TO ME, is that the insurance defense lawyer could AND should, with MINIMAL RESEARCH, have found out that the injured child was Eve’s own son and that, as such, no insurance coverage is available.
For full disclosure, before reading Cory Fleming’s RECENT deposition in the Nautilus case, I had romanticized the story and thought the child was an abuse victim of one of Public Defender Eve Fleming’s clients and that Eve had exercised utter nobility in seeing to it that said poor child’s medical needs were met even at the cost of getting herself fraudulently sued.
I am naive, but I lose my naivety when confronted with OBJECTIVE evidence that that the REAL world is darker than I ever thought.
Parenthetically, I had also been naive about EBEB confronting big law firms. But that is another story.
Only in Cory Fleming’s deposition did I discover that the child was Cory’s own and gathered that said now-grown son did not attend Cory Fleming’s federal sentencing, not to be spared the humiliation of seeing his father sentenced, but to be spared being questioned about that August 2010 injury.
So, it appears to be a long tradition of insurance defense lawyers, FOR THE RIGHT PRICE, rolling over an paying obviously-invalid insurance claims.
How does that apply to GHS’s heirs claims and to Paul and Maggie’s demises?
Also deep in the depositions in the federal Nautilus case, John Grantland, of Murphy and Grantland, testifies that he could not find an internal medicine physician who could/could have done a life-expectancy analysis of GHS based on her pre-existing conditions.
Really? REALLY?!!!?? Really??!!
That is the bread and butter of ALL insurance defenses in wrongful deaths cases: the assessment of life expectancy independent of the event subject of the lawsuit.
And if you do not believe me, RAM himself had gotten a trial judge reversed based on that judge’s erroneous refusal to admit life-expectancy evidence.
The other side of the coin of insurance defense lawyers rolling over and paying worthless claims is their resorting to unethical extortions to terminate the cases of deserving claimants who cannot or would not pay bribes.
The cheating husband who brings flowers to the wronged and unsuspecting wife.
After all, a local insurance defense lawyer would not be rehired if (s)he kept rolling over and paying all claims. Only the select few get paid; the others get “defended” to the point of getting the worthy, deserving claimant falsely arrested to extort her to drop her claims or accept a penny on the dollar.
GHS’s heirs knew of the settlement and had confronted RAM about it. He PROBABLY responded that, if they do not buzz off, Paul and Maggie would testify that there were no dogs, and “Handsome” would testify that GHS was NOT picking up a check for services rendered to Libby Murdaugh. Thus, if GHS’s heirs had a case at all, it would be a workman’s comp, and that is only if GHS was even covered by workman’s comp insurance.
“Handsome” was dying and DID die three days later.
The only two remaining witnesses who could have brought the temple down a la Biblical Samson on themselves and their enemies were Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, who had made the 911 call when GHS had fallen at Moselle in February 2018.
So, follow the money. Who really profited from Paul and Maggie’s demise?
And what is the DOCUMENTED conduct of local insurance-defense-lawyers?
As always, do not take my words, take the OBJECTIVE records.

Phillip Branton?