COLUMBIA - The prosecutor who's considering ethics allegations
against House Speaker Bobby Harrell has several options for the
case that's been handed to him from the attorney general.
Neither Attorney General Alan Wilson nor Solicitor David Pascoe
is talking about the case. They won't even confirm or deny
Harrell's statement from more than a week ago that the state
grand jury investigation has ended and that Wilson transferred
the case to Pascoe, the Democratic chief prosecutor for Calhoun,
Dorchester and Orangeburg counties.  It could be a first in the
25-year existence of the state grand jury. Legal experts know of
no other scenario when an attorney general transferred a case
after a state grand jury probe ended without an indictment.
"I'm not aware of any prior case," said University South
Carolina Law School professor Colin Miller.  If Pascoe has the
case, as Harrell says his lawyers were told July 29, experts say
the solicitor's options include taking the allegations to a
county grand jury, asking to