South Carolina Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone has requested the statewide grand jury to investigate the criminal case against former Colleton County information technology director Jeffery Hill.
In the letter to the attorney general, Stone cited an ongoing investigation by agents of the S.C. State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) and the chargers are under review by the 1st and 14th Circuits’ Public Integrity Unit Stone States, “This investigation from the use of the State Grand Jury as it is an investigative grand jury equipped to issue subpoenas and compel sworn testimony in order to discover public corruption.”
On November 21, 2023, Jeffrey Hill was arrested on one count of wiretapping, “willfully and feloniously intercept(ed) electronic phone communication.” Colleton County Clerk of Court, Rebecca Hill’s, cell phone was also seized by agents of the S.C. State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) in connection with the inquiry into her son.
Attorney General Alan Wilson responded to Stone’s request for a criminal investigation by letter on December 4, stating that the AG’s office has “decided to assume jurisdictions for all prosecutorial actions related to these cases.”
However, a spokesperson would not confirm the State Grand Jury’s involvement.
“By law, State Grand Jury matters are secret unless and until it hands down an indictment, so we cannot comment on what the State Grand Jury may or may not be doing,” said spokesman Robert Kittle.
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