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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals Michael D. Watson, Petitioner, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2018-000486

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Saluda County R. Keith Kelly, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2022-UP-426 Submitted November 1, 2022 – Filed November 30, 2022

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

David Alexander, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Attorney General David A. Spencer, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted Michael D. Watson's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the post-conviction relief court's denial of relief. After careful consideration of the Appendix and briefs, we now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted. 1 DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

KONDUROS, HEWITT, and VINSON, JJ., concur.

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