Law partner to SC house speaker, judge Cody Mitchell released on bond after DUI charge
COLUMBIA — A South Carolina judge who is also a law partner to a top South Carolina lawmaker was arrested under suspicion of drunken driving May 8 before being released on bond by one of his fellow jurists.
Cody T. Mitchell, a judge of several municipalities in Chesterfield County, refused to take a breathalyzer when stopped a little after 11:30 p.m. by highway troopers, said Master Trooper Gary Miller, an agency spokesman.
Mitchell, 34, was also charged with driving with an open container. That, along with driving under the influence — a first offense — are misdemeanors.
He was released under a personal recognizance bond by Chesterfield Magistrate Gary R. Faulkenberry, court records show.
Mitchell is a law partner of House Speaker Jay Lucas, a Hartsville Republican, and manages the Hartsville office of Lucas, Warr, White & Mitchell.
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