Joanna Katherine Delany, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Attorney General David A. Spencer, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

Richard Kenneth Galloway appeals his convictions of lewd act on a minor and first-degree criminal sexual conduct on a minor, arguing the trial court erred in (1) limiting the testimony of his expert witness, (2) allowing the State's expert witness to testify about risk factors for childhood sexual abuse, (3) permitting the State's witness to testify about childhood sexual abuse dynamics and disclosures even though she did not comply with a subpoena duces tecum, (4) admitting evidence of his alleged prior bad acts against the victim's mother, and (5) admitting testimony in violation of the best evidence rule.

Lara Mary Caudy, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Deborah R.J. Shupe, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

The State brought this action under the Sexually Violent Predator Act, S.C. Code Ann. §§ 44-48-10 to -170, for a determination that Appellant William Ralph Wilson, III was a sexually violent predator in need of involuntary civil commitment in a secure facility for long-term control, care, and treatment. A jury found that Appellant was a sexually violent predator, and the circuit court ordered Appellant's commitment to the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. Appellant challenges the commitment order on the ground that the circuit court abused its discretion by admitting evidence of sexual misconduct that was not the subject of a conviction in violation of Rule 403, SCRE.

Michael Ashley Whitsitt, of The Whitsitt Law Firm, of Mount Pleasant, for Appellant. Pope D. Johnson, III, of Columbia; and John B. Williams and J. Jay Hulst, both of Williams & Hulst, LLC, of Moncks Corner, all for Respondent Berkeley County Electric Cooperative, Inc. Sterling Graydon Davies, of McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC, of Columbia; and Helen F. Hiser, of McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, both for Respondent John Lucas Tree Expert Company.

In this civil action, Elizabeth Lofton appeals the circuit court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc. and John Lucas Tree Expert Company. On appeal, Lofton argues the circuit court erred by finding she lacked standing in her personal capacity and abused its discretion by not allowing her to make a curative amendment to her complaint.

Dayne C. Phillips, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and J. Anthony Mabry, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

William T. Gule, Jr. appeals his convictions for murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. He contends the trial court erred in (1) denying Appellant's request to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter; (2) allowing testimony of prior bad acts; and (3) refusing to grant a mistrial.

Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and William Frederick Schumacher, IV, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

Benjamin Jerome Blake appeals his convictions for attempted murder, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, arguing the circuit court erred in allowing the State to question him about an unrelated incident and failing to conduct the third step of the Batson procedure.

Thomas Franklin McDow, IV, of McDow and Urquhart, LLC, and Barrett Wesley Martin, of Barrett W. Martin, P.A., both of Rock Hill, for Appellant. Thomas M. Neal, III, of Law Offices of Thomas M. Neal, III, of Columbia; and Pamela Michele Pearson, of Rock Hill, both for Respondent.

Kelly Simpson Franklin (Wife) appeals the family court's final order, arguing the family court erred in: (1) failing to make findings of fact regarding witness credibility, (2) calculating Stephen Franklin's (Husband) income in its child support determination, (3) not reducing Husband's visitation, and (4) not awarding her attorney's fees.

Paul Andrew Anderson and Kristina Michelle Anderson, both of Anderson & Anderson, LLP, of Aiken, for Appellant. Leon David Leggett, III and Harley Littleton Kirkland, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

Brandon Reed appeals the circuit court's order declaring the family court's order removing him from the sex offender registry void, arguing the family court had both subject matter and personal jurisdiction to issue the order; the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's (SLED) declaratory judgment action lacks any justiciable controversy and is an improper use of the Declaratory Judgment Act; and SLED's action is barred by res judicata and collateral estoppel and the family court order is the law of the case.

Bradford Neal Martin and Laura Wilcox Howle Teer, both of Bradford Neal Martin & Associates, PA, of Greenville, for Appellant. E. Warren Moise, of Grimball & Cabaniss, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondents.

Andrew Sims Radeker, of Harrison, Radeker & Smith, P.A., of Columbia, for Appellants. Andrew W. Countryman, of Countryman Law Firm, of Mount Pleasant; and Robert P. Wood, of Rogers Townsend LLC, of Columbia, both for Respondent.

This is an appeal by several condominium owners of an order dismissing their claims against a law firm. The firm advised the property's homeowners' association after a hurricane damaged several units. The circuit court dismissed the claims for a number of reasons including that the owners could not sue the firm because the firm's client was the homeowners' association, not the individual owners. The owners argue this was error.

Chief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek and Lara Mary Caudy, both of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Attorney General David A. Spencer, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

Tammy C. Moorer appeals her convictions for kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap. On appeal, Moorer argues the trial court (1) erred in failing to grant her motion for a directed verdict because there was no direct or substantial circumstantial evidence she was involved in the victim's disappearance; (2) abused its discretion and violated Rules 403 and 404, SCRE, in admitting text messages from her phone that were sexually explicit and referenced drug use; (3) abused its discretion in qualifying Grant Fredericks as an expert in forensic video analysis and allowing him to testify as to his unreliable conclusion that Moorer's truck was the vehicle videotaped going towards and away from the place where the victim was allegedly kidnapped; (4) abused its discretion in excluding the testimony of Moorer's alibi witnesses because she failed to comply with Rule 5(e)(1), SRCrimP; and (5) abused its discretion and violated Moorer's due process rights in excluding the testimony of several members of her family because they violated the sequestration order when the witnesses denied violating the order and no evidence showed their testimony was tainted.

Douglas Neal Truslow, of Truslow & Truslow, of Columbia, for Appellant. Edward Bilbro Davis, of Bell Davis & Pitt, PA, of Charlotte, NC, for Respondents.

Susan Barber Hackett, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, and Senior Assistant Attorney General W. Edgar Salter, III, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

Zantravious Randell Hall appeals his convictions for murder, attempted murder, and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Hall contends the trial court erred by (1) failing to admit certain social media messages into evidence and (2) enhancing his sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) pursuant to section 17-25-45 of the South Carolina Code (2014 & Supp. 2021) (the recidivist statute).

John Ryd Bush Long, of John R. B. Long, PC, of Augusta, GA, for Appellant. H. Grady Brown, III, of Law Offices of H. Grady Brown, P.A., of Beaufort; J. Michael Taylor, of Taylor/Potterfield, of Columbia; and Bridget Hillebrand Norton, of Beaufort, all for Respondent.

In this divorce action, Josie Bostick (Wife) appeals the family court's denial of her motion for continuance after the withdrawal of her previous attorney. Wife also appeals the family court's attributing the majority of the value of Earl Bostick's (Husband's) dental practice to personal goodwill, the family court's finding Wife had dissipated certain assets, the family court's alimony and attorney's fees award.

Jenkins McMillan Mann and Shaun C. Blake, both of Rogers Lewis Jackson Mann & Quinn, LLC, of Columbia, for Appellants. Kenneth Luke Connor and Christopher Caleb Connor, both of Connor & Connor LLC; and Allen Keith McAlister, Jr., of Hawk Law Group, all of Aiken, for Respondent.

In this negligence action, the estate of Utricia Shealy (the Estate) sued Agape Nursing Rehabilitation Center and Agape Management Services (together, Agape) for damages resulting from injuries Utricia sustained to her right hip when she fell from her wheelchair twenty-seven hours after her admission to Agape Nursing Rehabilitation Center. After a trial, Utricia's family received a verdict in the amount of $47,500 actual damages and $250,000 non-economic damages. Agape filed several post-trial motions, which were denied. Agape now asserts the trial court erred in: 1) granting a directed verdict motion on Agape's affirmative defense of intervening cause; 2) admitting evidence of Agape's past infractions from DHEC surveys in violation of Rules 402 and 403, SCRE; 3) admitting evidence of the wealth of Agape's owner and family in violation of Rules 402 and 403, SCRE; 4) denying Agape's directed verdict motion on Utricia's claim of professional negligence; and 5) denying Agape's motion for leave to deposit and stay the accrual of interest and execution of the judgment during the appeal.