South Carolina v. Price
Annotate this CaseThe South Carolina Supreme Court issued a common-law writ of certiorari to review a "sealed" order of the circuit court reducing the prison sentence of Jeroid Price and releasing him from prison after he served only nineteen years of his thirty-five-year sentence on his murder conviction. The Court previously issued an order unsealing all documents in the case. Here, the Court vacated the order because: (1) the circuit court did not have the authority to reduce the sentence because the solicitor and the circuit court did not comply with any of the requirements set forth in the applicable statute; and (2) the circuit court did not have the authority to close the proceedings to the public or seal the order. The Court remanded Defendant to the custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
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