Posted on 10/06/2018 10:25:55 AM PDT by ETL
A 74-year-old disbarred lawyer accused of killing a South Carolina law enforcement officer and wounding six others in an ambush-style shooting and his son were denied bond Friday.
Fred Hopkins is charged in the death of Florence Police Sgt. Terrence Carraway and six counts of attempted murder in the Wednesday shooting of Florence, S.C., police officers and Florence County sheriff’s deputies, FOX Carolina reported.
Hopkins and his adopted son, Seth, 28, have been released from medical facilities.
A judge decided to wait for more information before granting the elder Hopkins, a disabled Vietnam veteran, a court-appointed attorney. Prosecutors argued he doesn’t meet the financial qualifications for one.
The elder Hopkins appeared dazed and tired at his bond hearing, WBTW-TV of Myrtle Beach, S.C., reported.
"You understand where you're at right now?," Judge Tommy Mourounas asked Hopkins, according to the station.
"No, where am I?" Hopkins responded.
"You're at bond hearing court," the judge replied.
The younger Hopkins is charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Authorities suspect he is a danger to others, especially young women, and believe there may be other victims.
At his bond hearing, Seth Hopkins said only that he would like a court-appointed attorney, which was denied, the State newspaper of Columbia, S.C., reported.
Both men were taken to jail after their hearings.
Meanwhile, authorities said Friday that Wednesday's shootings would be investigated by the same special FBI team that worked on the slayings of five police officers in Dallas in 2016 and last October's mass shooting in Las Vegas.
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As of 2015, the only places in the world which still reserve the electric chair as an option for execution are the U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. (Arkansas and Oklahoma laws provide for its use should lethal injection ever be held to be unconstitutional.) Per wiki
Maybe if they talk to John Kasich he’ll let them ‘borrow’ Ol’ Sparky’..
Generous aren’t you.
But that is a separate issue. If there is any evidence of that (and so far I've only seen it suggested on this thread) then it should be investigated and proper prosecutions made. But that certainly doesn't provide any defense in the capital murder case.
Well, I was cutting the daddy some slack - he apparently did pass a bar exam.
Folks are a might touchy this week.
Springfield M1A I think. .308
Hopefully, or they could reinstate the chair for a criminal who needs to fry as much as this one does.
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