Charleston lawyer Gedney Major Howe III, one of many lions of the South Carolina authorized group identified for taking up high-profile instances whereas on the identical time spending hours mentoring younger attorneys, handed away March 21. He was 78.
His son, Gedney M. Howe IV, not too long ago posted on social media that his father had developed pneumonia, which was severely difficult by his present Pulmonary Fibrosis and Parkinson’s Illness.
“Gedney III represented folks, companies, faculties, even the state of South Carolina and the Senate,” Howe IV posted in confirming the loss.
“He additionally aggressively pursued companies, the FBI, the Coast Guard, the State, Lockheed Martin, and numerous others,” he continued. “The bane and darling of Judges and Juries alike, he confronted the previous adage, ‘Is it higher to be feared or cherished?’ and determined he can be each.”
Howe occupied an elevated spot among the 2,200 members of the Charleston Bar. Understanding of the long-established Howe household legislation workplace on Chalmers Road downtown he represented shoppers from all walks of life in civil and felony issues but in addition flourished in among the most headline-grabbing instances within the area.
Within the Eighties there have been drug smugglers charged within the federal authorities’s “Operation Jackpot.” Afterward he co-represented the cocaine-charged former state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, and likewise the DUI-accused former Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt.
Former state Rep. Tim Wilkes, his shopper from “Operation Misplaced Belief” — the Nineteen Nineties FBI bribery sting of the S.C. Legislature, was the one considered one of 19 accused legislators to be acquitted.
Wilkes wrote about their slowly warming relationship in a post-trial ebook.
“Do not assume I do not learn about you, Wilkes,” Howe is quoted as saying at their first assembly. “You are a cocky, conceited, show-boating S.O.B., and that could be a well-known reality.”
