Attorney Grant B. Smaldone is a trial lawyer focused on criminal defense in state and federal courts in Charleston, SC, and Eastern South Carolina.
Grant takes criminal defense and your freedom seriously. He is a member of the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (SCACDL) and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). He is a former prosecutor, a former public defender, and he has a proven track record of acquittals and dismissals in criminal cases ranging from traffic violations to murder prosecutions.
Grant accepts state and federal criminal defense cases in Charleston County, Dorchester County, Georgetown County, Horry County, and the surrounding areas in Eastern South Carolina.
If you’ve been charged with a crime in the Charleston, SC area, call at (843) 808-2100 or fill out our online contact form to set up a free consultation to discuss your case.
Knowledge is power. In part, the knowledge used to get your case dismissed or prepare your case for trial comes from the discovery process – what is discovery in a criminal case? For a person accused of a crime in SC, discovery means the information that the prosecutor is required to turn over – some ...
If this is your first time in trouble with the law, you may be asking yourself, “How can a criminal defense lawyer help me?” “He who represents himself has a fool for a client…” is a phrase that I’ve often heard when an attorney suggests that they can represent themselves in court. If it applies ...
Whether there is a statute of limitations for sexual assault in SC that applies to criminal charges or a civil lawsuit is a question on many people’s minds lately… Can a person really be arrested, prosecuted, and sent to prison in SC for something that happened decades ago? Can they be sued for an alleged ...
We know that, if you do not consent, police must get a warrant before they can search your cellphone. Once they have a search warrant, though, can police force me to unlock my cellphone? The answer depends on how your cellphone is locked – although police can force you to unlock your cellphone with a ...
