Appellate Defender Susan B. Hackett, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Deborah R.J. Shupe, Senior Assistant Attorney General Mark R. Farthing, all of Columbia, and Solicitor Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Jimmy A. Richardson, II, of Conway, for Respondent.

The Court will hear arguments as to whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's denial of petitioner's directed verdict motion based upon its conclusion that petitioner's lies and omissions to police constituted obstruction of justice.

Appellate Defender Susan B. Hackett, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Melody J. Brown, Assistant Attorney General W. Joseph Maye, of Columbia and Solicitor, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, S. Rick Hubbard, III, of Lexington, for Respondent.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Evans v. State, Op. No. 2021-UP-099 (S.C. Ct. App. filed March 31, 2021). The Court will determine whether the circuit court erred in denying Evans post-conviction relief based on his ineffective assistance of counsel claim.

Shaun C. Blake and Andrew Bryant Walker, both of Rogers, Lewis, Jackson, Mann & Quinn, LLC, and Sean Matthew Foerster, of Rogers, Townsend & Thomas, PC, all of Columbia, for Petitioner. Christy Curtis Jones, of Sherpy & Jones, PA, and Jonathan McKey Milling, of Milling Law Firm, LLC, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

This Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in ArrowPointe Federal Credit Union v. Bailey, 423 S.C. 373, 852 S.E.2d 473 (Ct. App. 2020). We will determine whether South Carolina law recognizes the doctrine of replacement mortgage, and if so, whether the doctrine applies in this case.

M. Dawes Cooke, Jr., Christopher Mark Kovach, both of Barnwell, Whaley, Patterson & Helms, LLC, of Charleston, for Petitioner. Joshua Steven Whitley, of Smyth Whitley, LLC, of Charleston, Jeffrey A. Breit, of Breit, Cantor, Grana, Buckner, PLLC, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and William Howell Morrison, of Haynsworth, Sinkler, Boyd, PA, of Charleston, all for Respondents.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Kovach v. Whitley, Op. No. 2020-UP-336 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Dec. 9, 2020).

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Assistant Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., both of Columbia, and Solicitor, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, William Walter Wilkins, III, of Greenville, for Petitioner. William G. Yarborough, III, and Lauren Carole Hobbis, both of William G. Yarborough, III, Attorney at Law, LLC, of Greenville, for Respondent.

The question before the Court is whether the court of appeals erred in reversing Charles Rampey's conviction based on an Allen charge that the court of appeals determined was unconstitutionally coercive.

Chief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., of Columbia, and Solicitor Ninth Judicial Circuit, Scarlett Anne Wilson, of Charleston, for Respondent.

A jury convicted Stewart Jerome Middleton of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, and the court of appeals affirmed. State v. Middleton, Op. No. 2020-UP-271 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Sept. 30, 2020). The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' opinion and determine whether the trial court erred in allowing a detective to testify that Middleton failed to show up for interview appointments and delayed giving a statement to the police.