State Supreme Court overturns Greenville man's conviction

The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned a Greenville County man's criminal conviction. In 2018, Greenville County Deputies stopped a woman who then pulled over in front of her friend's house. That's when her friend Thomas Charles Felton Jones then went outside.

Minutes later Jones was tased, tackled, knocked unconscious and then arrested. Jones was charged and later convicted of interfering with law enforcement. Jones later filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Greenville County Sheriff's Office and a settlement was reached in that case in 2022.

Jones also appealed his criminal conviction and the State Supreme Court has now overturned the conviction, citing that Deputies violated the Constitutional Rights of Thomas Jones.