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addition to the capital cases referenced above, he represented
James Rodney Leonard who was convicted of murder in 1988 and
was part of the helicopter escape at the Perry Correctional
Institution made famous by the CBS-TV movie. After defending
him on the escape, we filed habeas petition and had
his murder conviction reversed, thereupon he was found innocent
on the retrial. He was also involved in the 1994 video pornography
trials resulting in hung juries without a retrial. In the
1990s, he began to diversify with a primary emphasis on civil
cases, including personal injury, worker's compensation and
also condemnation cases. In 1996, he received a $2 million
award for defamation, which was reported to be the largest
defamation verdict in the history of Greenville County. In
1994, he was primary defense counsel in the Clemson University
defamation case ont he defense, which resulted in the successful
verdict. In 1998, he received two verdicts in excess of $1
million including the slander verdict, but also a personal
injury case against the SCDOT involving a death of the driver
for the failure to repair bridge railings. Involved in several
successful first party actions for bad faith insurance. In
1996 and 1998, he had excess of $5 million in jury verdicts
for personal injury or other personal tort practice. Recently
he became involved in defense counsel in several actions with
corporate defense or others for toxic dumping or allegations
of business tort violations, including Air Three Corporation,
and representation of other real estate developers. Currently
involved in defense counsel in Henkel super fund clean up
defense.
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