The Bushido

Salty Law Dogs in Beaufort
The old saying about American-Jurisprudence is "getting a case through court is like pushing an elephant through a drive-thru." However, there is one man who doesn't subscribe to that saying; 14th Judicial Circuit Solicitor Isaac M. "Duffie" Stone selected two new deputies to join his posse and round up the renegade career criminals down in Beaufort. (Duffie Stone is seated on the far left of the group-notice Sec of State Mark Hammond and CofC Glenn McConnell in the middle of the picture?)

Greer, excuse me Grrrr!!! native Angela McCall-Tanner (wife of the new sheriff in town, er, Beaufort County-Sheriff Roscoe-P.J. Tanner) who broke the gender barrier in 1999 when she became the first woman solicitor in Beaufort County. The College of Charleston graduate and USC law school grad wants an around the clock assistant solicitor to get the ball moving on cases as soon as they happen. Why? Because Crime never sleeps, and only pays when it comes to politics, mis-management of large corporations and drug-cartels. Sheriff Tanner proposed to Angie by handcuffing her and dragging her in front of the JOP to get hitched. I have to admit that is the first I have ever heard of that manuever.
(The photo is compliments of Lowcountry Now.com)

To handle the case load from the less populated counties in the 14th Circuit (Allendale, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper Counties) Stone-Cold Solicitor chose Sean Thornton. Thornton--no, John Wayne's character the American boxer who returns home to Ireland to find love in the movie "Quiet Man", the attorney--is a master of the minutae in admin and trial procedures; you know-crossing the t's and dotting the i's to keep in jail all the bad guys. Thornton began his legal career in the Public Defender's office and knows the in's and out's of legal manuevering to get the dangling crook-fish off of the hooks. Thornton is a Baptist School (aka-Charleston Southern University) and Mercer Law School grad. In 2003, Thornton moved over to the Solicitor's office in Walterboro. (Sorry if the photo looks like a scene from the movie "Miller's Crossing" Sean, but it was the only one that Google would give me. Thanks to Bible Center Church for the picture.)

With all of the crime and punishment in the 14th Circuit, all I have to say to Stone-Cold is, "Spread it on!" In closing, I have but one question for the bad boys, bad boys in Beaufort-what are you going to do?