Attorney Matt Siembieda Explains SC Stand Your Ground Law & How it Applies to Spivey Case

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.1 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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A 2023 road rage incident near Myrtle Beach turned deadly. Weldon Boyd fatally shot and killed 33 year old Scott Spivey. Boyd claimed self defense under South Carolina's Stand Your Ground Law. Questions emerged about the investigation after Boyd's phone calls were released. There are also questions abut Boyd's relationship with law enforcement and how the investigation was handled In this episode we discuss South Carolina's Stand Your Ground Law with Seton's father and attorney Matt Siembieda. Matt Siembieda is an attorney and law professor at Temple Law School. There have been other episodes covering this case. In the May 1 episode Wall Street Journal reporter Valerie Bauerlein joined the Impact podcast to share her reporting on the case. The May 29 episode we discussed two eye witness 911 calls and problems with law enforcement. Seton Tucker and Matt Harris began the Impact of Influence podcast shortly after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Now they cover true crime past and present from the southeast region of the U.S. Impact of Influence is part of the Evergreen Podcast Company. Look for Impact of Influence on Facebook and Youtube. Please support our sponsors Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to Quince dot com slash impact for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Impact of influence.
0:03.7	Covering true crime throughout the southeast.
0:08.3	Hello friend, Matt Harris and not Seton Tucker, not yet.
0:13.1	She'll be here for the actual episode.
0:14.5	Don't you worry about that as we handle the South Carolina Stand Your Ground Law.
0:22.4	We are part of the Evergreen podcast company.
0:23.8	Hopefully you'll support our sponsors.
0:27.4	Hopefully you'll head over to the Impact of Influence Facebook page.
0:33.0	And from there, hopefully you'll go to the YouTube channel and hit that subscribe button.
0:35.7	Now we've done a few episodes on this case.
0:38.4	You will find those episodes in the show notes. A case that happened in Uri County, South Carolina, September 9th, 2023, shooting involving Charles
0:47.6	Boyd, Kenneth Williams, and Scott Spivey. There was road rage. It ended up with Scott Spivey being struck by gunfire and dying as a result of his injuries.
1:00.0	Now there have been investigations into the various law enforcement officers that were involved in that case.
1:10.6	We've had a whole episode about that.
1:12.4	There's problems with that investigation for sure.
1:15.4	As of now, it's been ruled that Boyd is not facing charges based on the stand,
1:22.6	your ground defense.
1:24.7	And that's why we want to talk about it with someone who's all about it. And that's
1:29.1	Seton's dad. He's back, the professor. Seton's father, Matt Simbita joins us, professor at Temple
1:36.0	University, Penn Law School grad, has been practicing law in different forms for just a few years,
1:43.7	the young man that he is.
1:45.6	Welcome back, Matt.
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