Did judge in Scott Spivey case consider immunity for his shooter? Motion seeks proof
A claim that a judge in the Scott Spivey case considered granting immunity to one of his two shooters has set off a flurry of motions in the case.
The recent legal filing on Monday is by the Spivey family’s attorney Mark Tinsley asking for a hearing and possible sanctions against Weldon Boyd and his attorney, Kenneth Moss, for allegations that the judge and Tinsley engaged in witness tampering, obstruction of justice and perjury, the motion states.
Monday’s filing comes after Boyd, a North Myrtle Beach businessman who, along with his friend Kenneth “Bradley” Williams, shot and killed the 33-year-old North Carolina man nearly three years ago, filed a motion June 18, 2026, to withdraw his request for Judge Eugene Griffith Jr. to recuse himself from the case. The withdrawal comes more than a week after the initial filing accused the judge of participating in settlement negotiations involving Tinsley, attorney for the Spivey family, and Williams’ attorney which included granting Williams immunity in exchange for Williams “fabricating testimony to prove Boyd intentionally caused the death of Spivey” during a four-day Stand Your Ground hearing earlier this year, the filing said.
The filing on Monday is asking that the judge set a hearing to require Boyd and Moss to produce evidence and witnesses to the allegations, which were not included in the motion.
“A party who invokes the authority of the Court by filing accusations of criminal and ethical misconduct against a sitting circuit judge and opposing counsel cannot evade judicial inquiry into those accusations simply by withdrawing the motion after the accusations have been forcefully challenged,” the filing said. “Defendant Boyd and his counsel elected to place these allegations into the public record. Having done so, they should be required to either substantiate those allegations with competent evidence or answer for their decision to make them.”
Both Boyd and Williams are facing a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Spivey’s family in his shooting death. The February hearing was to determine whether the two men would be granted immunity under the state law. Judge Griffith denied immunity for both men. The trial in the case is currently set for December.
In a June 3, 2026, motion for the judge to reconsider his ruling, Boyd said that evidence shows that the events on the day of the shooting were “initiated entirely” by Spivey and that Griffith’s order was “riddled with blatant misstatements of fact.”
Boyd and Williams have not been criminally charged after the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office ruled that the shooting fell under the state’s Protection of Persons and Property Act, more commonly known as Stand Your Ground.
Boyd and Williams were involved in the deadly road rage shooting on Sept. 9, 2023, on Camp Swamp Road in the Longs area of Horry County. The shooting occurred after a back and forth between the three men along S.C. 9. The confrontation eventually ended in the fatal shooting on Camp Swamp Road when Spivey stopped his vehicle to confront Boyd and Williams, who had been following him for several miles.
