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Committee backs change to attempted murder definition to cover violent acts likely to kill or cause great bodily harm
Summary
The subcommittee approved an amendment and advanced a bill that restructures the state definition of attempted murder to cover unlawful violent acts committed with malice that cause or are likely to cause injury, adding transferred intent language and clarifying that acts likely to cause death or great bodily injury meet the standard.
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee voted to advance a bill (Bill 270) that would broaden South Carolina’s attempted murder statute so prosecutors can charge unlawful violent acts committed with malice that cause, or are likely to cause, serious injury as attempted murder.
A staff-presented amendment, proposed by the South Carolina Commission on Prosecution Coordination, clarifies the bill’s language by defining “act of a violent nature” as “any act directed towards another person that, if completed, would have been likely to cause…
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