E. C. Burnett III
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E. C. Burnett III | |
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| Associate Justice of South Carolina | |
| In office April 10, 1995 – September 1, 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Ernest A. Finney Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Donald W. Beatty |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 26, 1942 (age 83) Spartanburg County, South Carolina |
| Spouse | Jami Grant |
| Alma mater | Wofford College (B.A. 1964), University of South Carolina (J.D. 1969) |
E. C. Burnett III (born January 26, 1942) is a former associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected on March 21, 1995, to fill the unexpired nine years of Judge Randall Bell's term; Judge Bell had died before being sworn into his seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court. Burnett defeated Judge Costa Pleicones by a vote of 102–58.[1]
In 1982, he presided over the trial of Edward Lee Elmore, an intellecutally disabled man who was convicted and sentenced to death. The trial is illustrated and criticised intensely by investigative journalist Raymond Bonner in his book Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong (2012).
References
[edit]- ^ "Legislators elect Burnett to fill seat on Supreme Court". The Item. Sumter, South Carolina. March 22, 1995. pp. 7A. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
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