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	Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of Ex-Deacon By Rick Brundrett The State August 17, 2009 http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/905571.html The S.C. Supreme Court today re-instated a child molestation conviction against a former deacon at First Baptist Church in Columbia. The court in a 4-1 ruling reversed a 2005 decision by the state Court of Appeals involving John Hubner, who was sentenced in 2002 to 36 years in prison after a Richland County jury convicted of six counts of lewd acts on a child. The Supreme Court today also upheld convictions in two other child sex abuse cases in Greenville and Pickens counties. The court relied on the Greenville County case in re-instating Hubner's conviction. In all three cases, the high court said that the trial judges were correct in allowing testimony about "prior bad acts" by the defendants, though the defendants were not charged in most of those cases.
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