Legislative Session Begins

• The Legislature convenes today. SCOIDBlog will be following legislation of interest to criminal defense lawyers.


• Chief Justice Eismann will not be giving the traditional State of the Judiciary address today due to his illness. The Chief Justice is being treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. According to the AP, court officials say he is taking treatment well and his prognosis is good for a full recovery.


• It is sad to note that the Chief Justice and our own Tom McCabe, both Vietnam vets, have been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The VA, after years of denial, now acknowledges the disease as part of a broader Agent Orange syndrome. (Probably not what they had in mind when they volunteered to serve.) Tom is out of treatment and is back to his old loquacious self.


• No new opinions today.