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.
Can you go to jail for doing your job? Assuming your job is not a criminal enterprise, the answer is probably no… unless you are a criminal defense lawyer. Judges need to maintain order in their courtrooms, and they will sometimes hold people in contempt of court for not following a judge’s orders or for ...
Help! I’m charged with a crime, I didn’t do it, and my lawyer won’t talk to my witnesses! Sometimes, a person goes to trial, they are convicted, and then, after the trial, they claim they told their lawyer about their alibi witnesses. Alibi witnesses that their lawyer never talked to and did not call as ...
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 ...
