STATE v. BARNES

No. 27538.

413 S.C. 1 (2015)

774 S.E.2d 454

The STATE of South Carolina, Petitioner, v. Steven Louis BARNES, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided July 1, 2015.

Rehearing Denied August 6, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General, Alan McCrory Wilson , Chief Deputy Attorney General, John W. McIntosh , Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Donald J. Zelenka and Senior Assistant Attorney General, Melody Jane Brown , all of Columbia; and Solicitor Donald V. Myers , of Lexington, for petitioner.

Jeffrey P. Bloom ; and Chief Attorney, William Sean McGuire and Staff Attorney Emily Therese Kuchar , both of Capital Trial Division of SC Commission on Indigent Defense, all of Columbia, for respondent.


We granted the State's request for a common law writ of certiorari to review a pretrial circuit court order in this capital retrial proceeding. We affirm the circuit court's order.

Respondent's first capital conviction and sentence were reversed on appeal because he was denied his constitutional right to represent himself...

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