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Reporter Seeks To Unseal David Pascoe’s Family Court Files

Eleventh-hour legal drama befalls leading candidate for South Carolina attorney general’s office…

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by WILL FOLKS *** A North Carolina-based journalist has asked a South Carolina judge to unseal
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Rebecca Shields Top fan June 4, 2026 at 8:35 am

Anyone can request their family court file be sealed if there is a good reason. It is not reserved for influential individuals.

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CongareeCatfish Top fan June 4, 2026 at 10:32 am

While I get the “rules for thee, not for me” pushback viewpoint of Will, I think all family courts files should be subject to a presumption that they should be sealed, and place the legal and evidentiary burden on the person asking them to be unsealed. The entire world doesn’t have a default right to know out the intimate details of someone’s family breakup or other crisis.

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SubZeroIQ June 4, 2026 at 11:33 am

Hell hath no fury like a lawyer whose chance to make money dwindled or like a prosecutor who failed to obtain a wrongful conviction in case which should not have been brought in the first place or like a prosecutor whose wrongful conviction (obtained by unconstitutional acts to say the least) just got vacated.
We know why Todd Rutherford and Leon Lott are furious that Professor Chow got acquitted in the protection-of-others shooting death of 14-year-old loaded-gun-toting Cyrus Carmack-Belton, acquitted by a jury with seven black members no less after hearing a brilliant defense by the amazing black lawyer Shaun Courtney Kent clad in a bespoke three-piece suit lined in crimson silk and a plain silk tie matching the lining’s EXACT color.
What puzzles me is the silence of Will Folks about the violence-inciting xenophobic speech of lawyer legislator Todd Rutherford and the silence of Andy Fancher about the crime-glorifying speech of Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott.
I, for one, being TRULY committed to the health and happiness of all children, including black ones, will NOT be silent, God so willing and FITS permitting.
More important than AG candidates’ marital and extra-marital activities are their views about, and proposed actions against, teenagers carrying loaded guns and trespassing on stores which prohibit entry of those loaded guns.
After a black male lawyer-state-legislator, we have a white chief county law enforcement officer FALSELY asserting the Cyrus “did nothing wrong.”
WRONG: Cyrus did AT LEAST two VERY WRONG things:
(1) Cyrus carried and unlawful LOADED gun; and
(2) Cyrus TRESPASSED with the loaded gun on the Chows’ store which had a CLEAR sign that guns were not allowed in the store.
That is the ULTIMATE disrespect for the store owner.
It a diner had entered shirtless into a fancy restaurant which had a sign, for example “shirt and tie required,” Lott’s men would have arrested that patron for trespass.
The private owner of any premises has the ABSOLUTE right to set conditions for the entry to the premises by any one other than the owner.
What you are doing is encouraging more children to carry loaded guns which are more likely to kill them by accident or suicide, to say nothing of gang warfare.
Stop the hypocrisy and demagoguery! You are killing children for the sake of cheap publicity.

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Just another guest June 4, 2026 at 11:34 am

Hell hath no fury like a lawyer whose chance to make money dwindled or like a prosecutor who failed to obtain a wrongful conviction in case which should not have been brought in the first place or like a prosecutor whose wrongful conviction (obtained by unconstitutional acts to say the least) just got vacated.
We know why Todd Rutherford and Leon Lott are furious that Professor Chow got acquitted in the protection-of-others shooting death of 14-year-old loaded-gun-toting Cyrus Carmack-Belton, acquitted by a jury with seven black members no less after hearing a brilliant defense by the amazing black lawyer Shaun Courtney Kent clad in a bespoke three-piece suit lined in crimson silk and a plain silk tie matching the lining’s EXACT color.
What puzzles me is the silence of Will Folks about the violence-inciting xenophobic speech of lawyer legislator Todd Rutherford and the silence of Andy Fancher about the crime-glorifying speech of Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott.
I, for one, being TRULY committed to the health and happiness of all children, including black ones, will NOT be silent, God so willing and FITS permitting.
More important than AG candidates’ marital and extra-marital activities are their views about, and proposed actions against, teenagers carrying loaded guns and trespassing on stores which prohibit entry of those loaded guns.
After a black male lawyer-state-legislator, we have a white chief county law enforcement officer FALSELY asserting the Cyrus “did nothing wrong.”
WRONG: Cyrus did AT LEAST two VERY WRONG things:
(1) Cyrus carried and unlawful LOADED gun; and
(2) Cyrus TRESPASSED with the loaded gun on the Chows’ store which had a CLEAR sign that guns were not allowed in the store.
That is the ULTIMATE disrespect for the store owner.
It a diner had entered shirtless into a fancy restaurant which had a sign, for example “shirt and tie required,” Lott’s men would have arrested that patron for trespass.
The private owner of any premises has the ABSOLUTE right to set conditions for the entry to the premises by any one other than the owner.
What you are doing is encouraging more children to carry loaded guns which are more likely to kill them by accident or suicide, to say nothing of gang warfare.
Stop the hypocrisy and demagoguery! You are killing children for the sake of cheap publicity.

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SubZeroIQ June 4, 2026 at 2:15 pm

How quickly do I get vindicated about the hypocrisy of ignoring guns in the hands of teens and feeding xenophobia instead.
Here is what I posted on TODAY’s early morning shooting in Northeast Columbia:
Happy now Sheriff Lott?
Only last night you were glorifying the late illegal-LOADED-gun-toting 14-year old Cyrus as “murdered” in the prime of his life.
This morning, you are telling us about an 18-year-old black male shot dead. I pray you won’t blame Professor Chow and his-college graduate son Andy for that.
Blame your OWN pandering, xenophobia, arrogance, and negligent training of your officers.
You lavish higher salaries and sparkling cars on them and on yourself; but you refuse to equip them with things so cheap and essential as metal detectors for them to collect shell casings and spent bullets when shots are fired in the dark.
You also refuse to install shot spotters and cameras in high-crime areas. You even neglect to require the videos of landlords in housing complexes with videos.
Yes, a human life is worth more than a bottle of water; but it is also worth more than a metal detector and the few minutes it would take your deputies to insist on watching existing videos or to report landlords who advertise safety through video cameras but IN REALITY do not maintain those cameras.
YOUR hypocrisy, not hard-working Asian immigrants, is killing young black people.

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Just another guest June 5, 2026 at 11:48 am

Breaking for FITS his and Andy Fancher’s continuing puzzling silence on the Cyrus Carmack-Belton story and on Sheriff’s Lott continued shirking of his own responsibility for Richland County’s gang and firearm problems, I paste my reply to a commenter on an MSM’s interview with Prosecution Witness Jasmine Broadwater:
? @johnson12183 , first, Cyrus was NOT “murdered.” He was fatally shot; but not every fatal shooting is a murder.
Please, please, PLEASE, respect the jury’s acquittal of Professor Chow of murder. That is why we have trials by jury and a court system.
Guilt or innocence of crime is not, and should not become, a matter of on-line opinions. It is to be determined in ONE forum, and ONE FORUM ONLY: a court of law.
Now that it has been determined in the only available and legitimate EARTHLY forum, NO ONE has the right to call Professor Chow a murderer or to call his fatal shooting of of Cyrus Carmack-Belton a murder.
Next, I was only responding to a question about what laws Cyrus had broken because I am very offended by those who should know better than to claim Cyrus did “absolutely NOTHING wrong.”
I do believe that the Chows over-reacted to Cyrus’ suspicious behavior in the store. But those who claim Cyrus’ carrying an illegal firearm and trespassing into the Chows’ store with is “nothing wrong” are simply glorifying self-destructive behavior among urban black youth that ends up hurting those youths themselves.
Only the morning after the vigil for Cyrus were there horrific incidents of much gunfire and a teen-aged black male dead.
Still think “nothing wrong” with loaded firearms in the hands of urban under-age males?

But I also add something important: NOT all injuries should receive CPR by CHEST COMPRESSION, which may be contra-indicated and even itself the cause of death in cases of bleeding into the chest cavity. The life-saving measure in such cases is a chest tube, not chest compressions. Of course, lay people may not have immediate access to surgically-sterile chest tube in all bleeding-into-the-chest-cavity emergencies; but even an IMPROVISED chest tube until EMS arrives is a better option than chest compressions.

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jbl1a June 5, 2026 at 10:16 pm

But but he was a good boy. They even had a community vigil for him. The real question begs….. why the hell did a 14 yo kid have a firearm in the first place. Nothing like the culture of failure. The real problem isnt the gun, it’s the culture, another thing most black leaders refuse to address.

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SubZeroIQ June 7, 2026 at 3:12 am

Why stop now when 7 of 14 trending stories on FITSNews have my comments on them?
No reason to not paste this reply of mine to recurring accusations that I am somehow privately connected to the Murdaughs:
? @marthalisk303 , I have ZERO contact with Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) and ALL members of his family and know NOTHING about their lives, public or private OTHER than OFFICIAL court events and records.
What I am “privy to” is how this gang of prosecutors try to frame the innocent because they did it to me but, thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, I first succeeded in preventing a jury, presided over by none other than Judge Clifton Newman, from returning a wrongful conviction of me; and I later, always thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, succeeded in getting the false criminal charges brought against me dismissed WITH PREJUDICE by another judge.
You would think this gang of frame-the-innocent prosecutors would apologize or mend their ways when exposed.
THE OPPOSITE is the sad reality. They continue to demonize and punish the innocent they tried but failed to frame, as if those prosecutors had some divine dispensation to pick an innocent and cruelly toy with him/her; and if I thwarted the evil prosecutors, then I am the bad guy for having spoiled their perverted fun.
Please respect my proven innocence and my pain at my life having been stolen.

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Just another guest June 7, 2026 at 3:13 am

Why stop now when 7 of 14 trending stories on FITSNews have my comments on them?
No reason to not paste this reply of mine to recurring accusations that I am somehow privately connected to the Murdaughs:
? @marthalisk303 , I have ZERO contact with Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) and ALL members of his family and know NOTHING about their lives, public or private OTHER than OFFICIAL court events and records.
What I am “privy to” is how this gang of prosecutors try to frame the innocent because they did it to me but, thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, I first succeeded in preventing a jury, presided over by none other than Judge Clifton Newman, from returning a wrongful conviction of me; and I later, always thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, succeeded in getting the false criminal charges brought against me dismissed WITH PREJUDICE by another judge.
You would think this gang of frame-the-innocent prosecutors would apologize or mend their ways when exposed.
THE OPPOSITE is the sad reality. They continue to demonize and punish the innocent they tried but failed to frame, as if those prosecutors had some divine dispensation to pick an innocent and cruelly toy with him/her; and if I thwarted the evil prosecutors, then I am the bad guy for having spoiled their perverted fun.
Please respect my proven innocence and my pain at my life having been stolen.

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