State v. Charles Wakefield, Jr.

Summary

The South Carolina Supreme Court held that a circuit court may not order discovery on a Rule 29(b) motion for a new trial based on after‑discovered evidence, vacating the lower court’s discovery order and directing the trial court to consider only the newly‑presented evidence and the trial record. The Court granted the State’s petition for extraordinary relief and issued a common‑law writ of certiorari.