Legal Opinion
Rayfield Ex Rel. Estate of Rayfield v. South Carolina Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
Decided October 31, 1988No. 1233PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bell, Judge:
The Administrator of the estates of Billie Lewis Rayfield and Evelyn R. Rayfield brought these wrongful death actions against the South Carolina Department of Corrections and the South Carolina Department of Parole and Community Corrections. The individual defendants are various officers and servants of the two departments. For convenience, we shall call them the “Corrections Officers” and the “Parole Officers.”
The complaint alleges that the Rayfields came to their deaths at the hand of one Cecil Lucas shortly after the Department of Parole freed him from the custody of the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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3Cited by71 opinions
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