THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals In the Interest of James F., a Juvenile Under the Age of Seventeen, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2012-213534

Appeal From Richland County W. Thomas Sprott, Jr., Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-005 Submitted November 1, 2014 – Filed January 7, 2015

AFFIRMED

Chief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., and Solicitor Daniel Edward Johnson, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: S.C. Code Ann. § 17-23-175(A) (2014) ("In a . . . delinquency proceeding in family court, an out-of-court statement of a child is admissible if . . . the child testifies at the proceeding and is subject to cross-[]examination . . . ."); Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 59 n.9 (2004) ("[W]hen the declarant appears for cross-examination at trial, the Confrontation Clause places no constraints at all on the use of his prior testimonial statements."); Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, 480 U.S. 39, 52 (1987) ("[T]he right to confrontation is a trial right, designed to prevent improper restrictions on the types of questions that defense counsel may ask during cross-examination.").

AFFIRMED.1 HUFF, SHORT, and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.

We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.