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| Officer Michael T. Slager |
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — In a departure from the way most cases are handled,
the chief justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina on Tuesday
appointed a judge from outside North Charleston to oversee the case
against the former police officer, Michael T. Slager, who has been
charged with murder in the shooting of Walter L. Scott, an unarmed man
who fled after being pulled over for a traffic stop on April 4.
Chief
Justice Jean Hoefer Toal ordered Judge Clifton B. Newman of South
Carolina Circuit Court on Tuesday to preside over all legal matters in
the case and to retain jurisdiction “regardless of where he may be
assigned to hold court.” Judge Newman, a former prosecutor based in
Kingstree, about 75 miles north of Charleston, is one of only five
African-American Circuit Court judges in the state.
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