SC High Court Rules Prosecutors’ Dispute Can Be Made Public

David Pascoe (TandD Photo)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ South Carolina’s high court has made public documents in a dispute between Attorney General Alan Wilson and a special prosecutor he appointed to oversee a legislative corruption investigation.

The state Supreme Court late Thursday unsealed papers Wilson filed in response to Solicitor David Pascoe. Justices also said all other documents in the case, except for two items filed by Wilson, could also be public.

Wilson turned the investigation of former House Speaker Bobby Harrell over to Pascoe in 2014. Wilson fired Pascoe last month after he said the prosecutor tried to open a state grand jury probe into a redacted portion of a state police report without proper authority.

Pascoe says he won’t step down without a court’s intervention. Justices haven’t said when they will rule in the prosecutors’ dispute.