HUNTINGTON — A man cleared in a Cabell County murder after spending more than 10 years behind bars has filed a lawsuit against the police officers who put him there.
CHARLESTON – A Mason County man blames the state Department of Health and Human Resources for allowing his biological granddaughters and another girl to live in a home with a registered sex offender.
CHARLESTON – The estate of prominent Charleston attorney Sean McGinley has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against AEP and an auto auction company following his June death in a traffic accident on Interstate 79.
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Five days a week for 26 years, Charleston lawyer Tim DiPiero walked into work where heâd see his friend and colleague Sean McGinley, whom he remembered as a gifted attorney with âa keen sense of right and wrong and seeking justice.â
An Interstate 79 crash Thursday killed McGinley near the Frametown exit in Braxton County. He was returning from a hearing in Morgantown. He was 55.
McGinley served as counsel to The Charleston Gazette and, later, the Gazette-Mail during a sparkling legal career spanning 30 years. He was a partner at DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress PLLC, in Charleston.
âSean was a brilliant lawyer,â DiPiero said. âJust amazingly talented. . He would always improve any draft of writing I did. He could always make it better. He was incredible at research and writing, and just had a way with words.