About E. C. Burnett, III
Born 1942. E. C. Burnett, III is a judge.
E. C. Burnett III (born January 26, 1942) is a former associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected on March 21, 1995, to fill the unexpired nine years of Judge Randall Bell's term; Judge Bell had died before being sworn into his seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court. Burnett defeated Judge Costa Pleicones by a vote of 102–58.
In 1982, he presided over the trial of Edward Lee Elmore, an intellectually disabled man who was convicted and sentenced to death. The trial is illustrated and criticised intensely by investigative journalist Raymond Bonner in his book Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong (2012).
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E. C. Burnett, III was born on 26 January 1942 in Spartanburg County.
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