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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals Dwayne Lee Rudd, Petitioner, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2018-000091

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Aiken County J. Mark Hayes, II, Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 2021-UP-366 Submitted October 1, 2021 – Filed October 27, 2021

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Victor R Seeger, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Megan Harrigan Jameson, and Assistant Attorney General Joshua Abraham Edwards, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted Dwayne Rudd's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the post-conviction relief court's denial of relief based on the court's finding that his ineffective assistance of counsel claim was without merit. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.1 KONDUROS, HILL, and HEWITT, JJ., concur.

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