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 Willie J. Richardson, Respondent, v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2016-000885

Appeal From Lexington County Brian M. Gibbons, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-055 Heard February 6, 2020 – Filed February 26, 2020

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Megan Harrigan Jameson, and Assistant Attorney Taylor Zane Smith, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Clarence Rauch Wise, of Greenwood, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: After careful consideration of the Appendix and briefs and oral argument, we now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

WILLIAMS, KONDUROS, and HILL, JJ., concur.