STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

FOR THE SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
COUNTY OF CHESTER

 

Ray Charles Degraffenreid

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA 
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James Robert McClurkin Lg
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Defendants.

This matter comes before me as Chief Administrative Judge for the Appointment
of Counsel in a state habeas case. The defendants were both convicted of murder in 1977
in the Chester County Court of General Sessions. The Court is informed that there may
be new evidence, or other related matters, to which the defendants may be entitled to a
hearing or other appropriate relief. . .[H]abeas corpus relief remains available to
prisoners in South Carolina. See S.C. Const. art. I, 18. Habeas relief is seldom used and
acts as an ultimate ensurer of fundamental constitutional rights.? Williams v. Ozmz?nt, 671
600, 380 SC. 473 (SC. 2008)(petitioner granted a hearing and review in 2008
from a 1993 capital murder conviction and sentence); See also, Butler v. State, 302 SC.
466, 397 87 (l990)(capital murder conviction reversed after more than ten years

and all other appeals exhausted, based upon ?fundamental fairness?). The defendants are

currently incarcerated, indigent, and are entitled to the appointment of counsel in this 

matter. This Order is issued pursuant to this Court?s authority under SC. Code Ann. ?17~
3?10 et. seq; US. Const. Amend. 5, 6 and 14; SC. Const. ArtTHEREFORE ORDERED that the Court hereby appoints attorney Jeffrey

Bloom to represent defendant James Robert 

  
  
 

urkin, and appoints attorney Joshua
Kendrick to represent defendant Ray Cha -

AND IT IS SO ORDERED.

    
   

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Dated: June 14, 2016
Chester, SC.

IN THE COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS