From Postandcourier.com, June 4, 2023, by Ema Rose Schumer  (Read full article here)


Long after the lives of innocent victims ended and the people responsible were sentenced, two homicide cases returned this week to a Lowcountry courtroom, where a different judge heard defense attorneys’ requests for legal redos — resentencings that could have shaved years off of their prison terms.

The hearings took place as South Carolina’s criminal justice system faces fresh scrutiny after the public learned last month that an Upstate judge penned a secret order late last year freeing a convicted murderer from prison 16 years early. The order has since been voided, but Jeroid Price remains at large.

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