John William Roberts, of Willoughby & Hoefer, PA, of Columbia and Chief Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, 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 Caroline M. Scrantom, all of Columbia and Solicitor David Stumbo, of Greenwood, for Respondent.

Tavarious Settles was convicted of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. The trial court sentenced him to concurrent prison sentences of forty-five years for murder and five years for the weapon charge. His murder sentence was subsequently reduced to forty years. The court of appeals affirmed. State v. Settles, Op. No. 2018-UP-214 (S.C. Ct. App. filed May 23, 2018). This Court granted Settles a writ of certiorari. Settles argues the trial court erred by (1) refusing to suppress his statement given to law enforcement and (2) refusing to conduct an individualized and meaningful sentencing hearing pursuant to Aiken v. Byars, 410 S.C. 534, 765 S.E.2d 572 (2014).

Appellate Defender Lara M. Caudy, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General W. Jeffrey Young, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody J. Brown and Assistant Attorney General Sherrie Butterbaugh, all of Columbia and Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson, of Charleston, for Respondent. John H. Blume, of Cornell Law School, of New York and Lindsey S. Vann, of Justice 360, of Columbia, for Amici Curiae, Justice 360 and Cornell Juvenile Justice Project.

The Court is asked to determine whether the thirty-year mandatory minimum sentence for murder set forth in S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-20(A) (2015) is unconstitutional as applied to juvenile homicide offenders because it fails to take into account the unique considerations of youth in violation of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 420 (2012), and Aiken v. Byars, 410 S.C. 534, 765 S.E.2d 572 (2014).

First Circuit Solicitor David Michael Pascoe, Jr. and Assistant Solicitor William Baker Allen, Jr., both of Orangeburg, for Appellant. Matthew Terry Richardson, of Wyche Law Firm, of Columbia, for Respondent.

In this appeal, we review whether the trial court erred in determining a substantial factual basis existed to accept Respondent's guilty plea to a charge of statutory misconduct in office under S.C. Code Ann. § 8-1-80.

Stephen Benjamin Samuels, of Samuels Law Firm, LLC, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Matthew Joseph Story and Daniel P. Ranaldo, both of Clawson & Staubes, LLC, of Charleston, and Lisa C. Glover, of the SC Uninsured Employers Fund, of Columbia, all for Respondents.

The Court granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' unpublished decision in Crane v. Raber's Discount Tire Rack, Op. No. 2018-UP-085 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb. 14, 2018).

Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan Wilson and Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, both of Columbia and Solicitor Isaac McDuffie Stone, III, of Bluffton, for Respondent.

Billy Phillips was convicted of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. The court of appeals affirmed his convictions. State v. Phillips, Op. No. 2018-UP-081 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb. 14, 2018). The Court granted Phillips a writ of certiorari. Phillips argues the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's admission of DNA expert testimony.

Robert C. Byrd and Alyson Smith Podris, both of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP, of Charleston and Marc Toberoff, of Toberoff & Associates, P.A., of Malibu, California, for Petitioners. Robert N. Rosen, of Rosen Law Firm, LLC, of Charleston; S. Alan Medlin, of Columbia, Thomas Heyward Carter, Jr., Andrew W. Chandler and M. Jean Lee, all of Evans Carter Kunes & Bennett, PA of Charleston, David Lawrence Michel, of Michel Law Firm, LLC, of Mt. Pleasant, Arnold S. Goodstein, of Goodstein Law Firm, LLC, of Summerville and Gerald Malloy, of Malloy Law Firm, of Hartsville, for Respondent.

The Court has issued a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in In re Estate of James Brown, 424 S.C. 589, 818 S.E.2d 770 (Ct. App. 2018). The appeal concerns whether Respondent is the surviving spouse of the decedent. Petitioners argue the court of appeals erred in affirming the circuit court's order, which granted summary judgment to Respondent and found the marriage between Respondent and the decedent was not bigamous.

Travis Dayhuff, of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, of Columbia, for Petitioner. General Counsel Matthew Buchanan and Assistant General Counsel Tommy Evans, Jr., both of South Carolina Department of Probation Parole and Pardon Services, of Columbia, for Respondent.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Rose v. S.C. Dep't of Prob., Parole, and Pardon Servs, Op. No. 2018-UP-087 (S.C. Ct. App. filed June 13, 2018).

Roy F. Harmon, III, of Harmon & Major, PA; and Christopher Todd Brumback, of Brumback & Langley, LLC; and John Hampton Scully, all of Greenville, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Special Assistant Attorney General J. Benjamin Aplin, both of Columbia, and Solicitor William Walter Wilkins, of Greenville, for Respondent.

Petitioner Marquez Glenn was charged with attempted murder and possession of a gun during a violent felony. This appeal concerns the denial of pretrial immunity held pursuant to Sections 16-11-440 and 450(A) of the South Carolina Code.

James Fletcher Thompson, of James Fletcher Thompson, LLC; and Charles J. Hodge and Timothy Ryan Langley, both of Hodge Law, PC, all of Spartanburg, for Petitioner. Andrew F. Lindemann and Joel S. Hughes, both of Lindemann, Davis & Hughes, PA, of Columbia, for Respondent.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in BLH by Hensley v. S.C. Dep't of Soc. Servs., 423 S.C. 422, 814 S.E.2d 638 (Ct. App. 2018).

Appellate Defender Kathrine H. Hudgins, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Megan Harrigan Jameson and Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, all of Columbia and Solicitor Ernest Adolphus Finney, III, of Sumter, for Respondent.

Terry Williams was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature (ABHAN), and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. The court of appeals affirmed. State v. Williams, Op. No. 2018-UP-176 (S.C. Ct. App. filed May 2, 2018). This Court granted Williams a writ of certiorari. Williams argues the trial court erred by allowing the State to question his wife at trial about two prior domestic violence incidents.

Donald M. Brown, Jr., of Brown & Associates, PLLC, of Charlotte, North Carolina, for Petitioner. W. Keith Martens, of Hamilton Martens, LLC, of Rock Hill and Michael K. Kendree, Sr. of York, for Respondent.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Morningstar Fellowship Church v. York County, Op. No. 2018-UP-250 (S.C. Ct. App. filed June 13, 2018).

David Alan Wilson, of Wilson & Englebardt, LLC, of Greenville, for Petitioner. Timothy E. Madden, of Greenville, for Respondent.

This Court granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision affirming the family court's finding that a family farm in Greece was considered marital property.