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About Chad Propst
Chad Propst is an attorney at Price Benowitz LLP focused on criminal defense, including DUI, drug charges, domestic violence, sexual conduct cases, and murder charges.
Propst earned his Juris Doctor cum laude with honors from the Charleston School of Law, where he received CALI Awards in Legal Writing and Research, Historic Preservation Law, and Criminal Law. He served on Moot Court, the Federal Courts Law Review, and as Articles Editor for the Maritime Law Bulletin (MALABU). He is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. He is admitted to the South Carolina Bar.
During law school, Propst interned with the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Capital Defenders. He has served as an Assistant Public Defender at the 13th Circuit Public Defender's Office in Greenville and as Deputy Public Defender at the Pickens County Public Defender's Office. He is a member of the Greenville Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys and the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP
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Price Benowitz, with co-counsel Ben Crump, filed a $25 million wrongful death suit for the father of Rolin Hill, who died in 2024 after Virginia Beach jail deputies restrained and beat him during a mental health crisis.
A large tree fell onto a moving car on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and trapped the driver, Marcelino Cruz Leiva. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging the National Park Service should have found and removed the decayed tree. After a four-day bench trial in December 2023, Judge Amit Mehta entered judgment for Cruz Leiva on his negligence claim in the sum of $5 million on May 7, 2024.
A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.
Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.
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