This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Post-Conviction Procedure Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 17-27-10
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Known as the Uniform Post-Conviction Procedure Act
The act spans §§ 17–17 (16 sections).
Applied in 29 court decisions — leading case Al-Shabazz v. State (2000)
Most recently applied in Brown v. State (May 2018)
1962 Code SECTION 17-612; 1969 (56) 158.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.