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IN THE MATTER OF GOODWIN

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279 S.C. 274 (1983)

305 S.E.2d 578

In the Matter of Joy S. GOODWIN and W. Gaston Fairey, Appellants. In the Contempt Matter of Joy S. GOODWIN and W. Gaston Fairey, Appellants. In re STATE of South Carolina, Respondent, v. Louis COVINGTON, Defendant. In the Matter of The BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF the DEFENDER CORPORATION OF RICHLAND COUNTY, An Eleemosynary Corporation Under the Laws of South Carolina, John Gregg McMaster (Chairman), Dallas D. Ball, Barry B. George, Terrell L. Glenn, Harold W. Jacobs, Lincoln W. Kirkland, T. Travis Medlock, Henry C. Nelson, Jr., John M. Young, Public Defender, W. Gaston Fairey, Carol Conner Murphy, Joy S. Goodwin, Garland P. McWhirter, Venable Vermont, Jr., Thomas J. Quinn, Martha B. Discus, and David G. Belser, Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

July 26, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack B. Swerling and Kenneth M. Suggs, Columbia, for appellants.

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Retired Atty. Gen. Daniel R. McLeod, Asst. Atty. Gen. Harold M. Coombs, Jr., and Sol. James C. Anders, Columbia, for respondent.

July 26, 1983.

NESS, Justice:

This case requires us to determine the appropriate course of conduct for an attorney who discovers his client, the defendant in a criminal case, intends to commit perjury.

Appellant Goodwin, an attorney employed by the Richland County Defender Corporation, was appointed to represent Louis Covington in a criminal trial. Appellant Fairey was to assist Ms. Goodwin in conducting the...

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