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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals Gene Tony Cooper, Petitioner, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2018-001149

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Lexington County J. Cordell Maddox, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2023-UP-036 Submitted December 1, 2022 – Filed February 1, 2023

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Lara Mary Caudy, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, and Senior Assistant Attorney General W. Edgar Salter, III, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted Gene Tony Cooper's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the post-conviction relief court's denial of relief. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED. 1 GEATHERS, McDONALD, and HILL, JJ., concur.

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