A former sheriff from the Upstate is free after serving the full term of his prison sentence. Former Greenville County Sheriff Will Lewis was released earlier this month after a year long stay with the Dept. Of Corrections.
He was convicted in 2019 for Misconduct In Office. The charge stemmed from a 2017 trip to Charlotte funded by the Sheriff's Office, in which Lewis had sexual relations with his then assistant. The former Sheriff claimed the act was consensual while his former assistant claimed Lewis took advantage of her after a night of heavy drinking.
That issue was settled in a 2018 civil suit in which his former assistant was paid $100,000 dollars from a state insurance fund. Rauch Wise the attorney for Lewis, filed an appeal on is conviction in August of last year and petition for a re-hearing in October, both were unsuccessful , resulting in Lewis doing every day of his sentence. "
