State v. Manigo — SC Court of Appeals Dismisses Pretrial Detainee’s Appeal of Order Releasing Jail Phone Calls as Non-Appealable Interlocutory Order
The South Carolina Court of Appeals dismissed a pretrial detainee’s appeal of a circuit court order releasing his jail telephone calls to the media, holding the order was non-appealable as interlocutory, and reaffirming that South Carolina requires evidence of actual juror bias rather than presumed prejudice from pretrial publicity.