Here is the latest South Carolina news from The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina’s voter identification law has been upheld, but a panel of three federal judges in Washington says the state cannot put it in practice until 2013. The judges say in their unanimous ruling that time is too short to put the law in effect ahead of the Nov. 6 elections.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has ruled a man’s privacy was not violated when his wife’s daughter-in-law managed to get into his email and find out the name of his lover. The justices ruled that since the emails were still in the husband’s inbox, the daughter-in-law did not violate a 1986 federal law about email storage.
ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — A judge is deciding whether to accept a self-defense claim and drop a murder charge against a man accused in a shooting death in the parking lot of an Anderson movie theater. Raphael Parks’ lawyer says the Clemson University engineering graduate was in fear for his life when he grabbed a gun from the glove box and killed 31-year-old Timothy Pickens two years ago.
SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — Investigators say an argument over how long a woman had been in the shower led to a Sumter County stabbing. Deputies found the 23-year-old victim with four non-life-threatening wounds in his back late Saturday. Deputies charged 32-year-old John Scott with attempted murder.
