Courts Getting Ready for General Sessions Trials

Jury selection began yesterday in Walhalla’s General Sessions Court in the case of South Carolina vs. Scott Norman Christner. The docket contains charges against the defendant which include sexual exploitation of a minor or attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

And in Oconee General Session Court, a docket published for next month is topped by a four year long death investigation. First on the April 18th docket is the case against Mack Adam Gaines, who was charged with neglect and abuse resulting in the death of a vulnerable adult.

92 year-old Alma Louise Gaines died in January of 2018 due to what the coroner’s office described as “medical complications secondary to her fall and neglect by a family member in providing her assistance.”