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Scarlett Wilson

Scarlett Wilson is the elected Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor for Charleston and Berkeley Counties, South Carolina. Beginning in June 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace publicly accused Wilson, the chief prosecutor whose circuit would handle the cases arising from Mace's own allegations, of leaking evidence and 'obstruct[ing] the investigation,' and demanded she recuse, be removed from all domestic-violence prosecutions, and face a state investigation. Wilson denied wrongdoing; reporters found Mace's office offered no supporting evidence.

Photograph of Scarlett Wilson
Credit: Ninth Circuit Solicitor's Office (S.C.). Official South Carolina government portrait. Source

Scarlett A. Wilson is the elected Solicitor for South Carolina's Ninth Judicial Circuit, covering Charleston and Berkeley Counties, and has served as the region's chief state prosecutor since her Senate confirmation on August 3, 2007, making her the first woman to hold the office. She was subsequently elected to the position in 2008 and re-elected in 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024. Before becoming Solicitor, Wilson served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the Violent Crimes Task Force, earning a Department of Justice Director's Award for Superior Performance, and as Chief Deputy Solicitor under her predecessor, Ralph E. Hoisington. She received both her undergraduate degree (Clemson University, 1989) and her law degree (University of South Carolina School of Law, 1992) in South Carolina.

As the elected Solicitor, Wilson's office is the one that would prosecute any criminal charges arising from the allegations Rep. Nancy Mace began making in her February 10, 2025 House floor speech. Beginning in June 2025, Mace made that prosecutor a public target, accusing her of crimes, demanding her recusal, and calling for her removal from the cases connected to Mace. The arc is gathered in Mace vs. the Solicitor.

Mace's campaign against the prosecutor in her own cases

June 19, 2025, Mace accuses Wilson on a national podcast. On the PBD Podcast, Mace named Wilson and accused her of obstructing justice, leaking evidence, and "turn[ing] a blind eye to victims of rape and voyeurism." As reported by The Post and Courier's Caitlin Byrd, Mace said: "I believe it was the solicitor who leaked evidence to people who shouldn't have had it. The solicitor, Scarlett Wilson is her name." She claimed Wilson "doesn't want to prosecute rape cases," "doesn't believe rape victims," and "has a political bias against me," and built a threatened lawsuit around the charge that Wilson "inserted yourself into this investigation and have obstructed the investigation."

Mace's full PBD Podcast appearance, June 19, 2025. The remarks about Solicitor Wilson are a segment within the interview.

Wilson denied the allegations: "I have no idea what the Congresswoman is referring to." She noted that the ongoing investigation Mace referenced was held by SLED, not the Solicitor's office, and that solicitors prosecute cases only after a law-enforcement investigation concludes. The Post and Courier reported that when it asked Mace's office, multiple times, for supporting evidence of the obstruction claim, none was provided. The paper noted both Wilson and Mace are Republicans; Wilson had supported Nikki Haley in the 2024 GOP primary while Mace backed Donald Trump. → Full dispatch

August 18, 2025, Mace demands Wilson's recusal and removal. After a video that Mace characterized as showing domestic violence involving Eric Bowman, one of the four men Mace named in her February 2025 floor speech, was released publicly, Mace issued an official congressional press release headlined "Solicitor Scarlett Wilson Tipped Off Abuser and Leaked Evidence to Harm Victim." She wrote that "Solicitor Scarlett Wilson's unethical behavior toward the victim has not gone unnoticed" and that "Wilson and her office should immediately recuse themselves and hand over any and all cases related to this victim to a solicitor who will actually protect victims and prosecute criminals." The release alleged Wilson's office had refused to watch the video evidence, refused to indict Bowman, "tipped off" Bowman about the video, leaked the victim's private statement and a SLED agent's identity in "direct violation of Rule 5," and "lied to the attorney representing the victim." It demanded "a full and immediate state investigation into Wilson's misconduct" and Wilson's "immediate removal from all domestic violence prosecutions."

Rep. Nancy Mace's August 18, 2025 press release headlined 'Solicitor Scarlett Wilson Tipped Off Abuser and Leaked Evidence to Harm Victim,' on her official House website Mace's official press release as published on mace.house.gov, August 18, 2025.

Wilson again denied wrongdoing. She said her office is "required by law and ethical rules to provide all relevant information to the defense, and we have in this matter", the basis for the disclosure Mace characterized as a leak, and that "SLED has briefed me throughout the investigation, but solicitors do not conduct criminal investigations nor make arrests." She declined to litigate the matter publicly: "We will continue to make decisions based on the facts and evidence before us, not on politics or its surrounding rhetoric. Simply put, we will not play a part in the circus sideshow of misguided protestors." → Full dispatch

What the record shows

Mace's central charge was that the prosecutor had improperly "inserted" herself into a criminal matter and "obstructed" it. The documented posture runs the other way: a sitting member of Congress, herself the self-described victim and complaining witness, publicly branding the elected prosecutor for her own circuit a criminal, on no stated evidence, and using official channels to demand that prosecutor be stripped of the cases connected to her and investigated by the state. A prosecutor's independence from the people whose cases she handles is the ordinary safeguard against exactly that kind of pressure. The full arc is laid out in Mace vs. the Solicitor.

Earlier context: the Sutherland case (2021)

Following the January 5, 2021 in-custody death of Jamal Sutherland at the Al Cannon Detention Center, Wilson announced on July 26, 2021 that her office would not prosecute the two former deputies involved, stating the evidence would not support proving criminal intent. Wilson publicly described the event as resulting from "error after error after error" and "clear negligence" but concluded the legal standard for criminal charges could not be met. Rep. Mace responded that she was "frustrated and disappointed that there were no charges made" but directed her primary public criticism in that matter at then-Sheriff Kristin Graziano over transparency and the delayed release of footage; Mace did not, in 2021, publicly demand Wilson recuse herself or resign. That is the contrast with what came four years later.

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All allegations on every side remain unproven and contested. The men Mace named deny her allegations; Solicitor Wilson denies Mace's allegations against her; the matters are the subject of an active SLED investigation and ongoing civil litigation, and no underlying matter has been adjudicated. Nothing here is a finding of fact.