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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Albert Scruggs, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2009-133949

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Richland County L. Casey Manning, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2012-MO-022 Submitted May 22, 2012 – Filed June 13, 2012

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, SC, for Petitioner Albert Scruggs.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General Brian T. Petrano, all of Columbia, SC, for Respondent State of South Carolina. PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the circuit court's denial of Albert Scruggs' application for post-conviction relief. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TOAL, C.J., PLEICONES, BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.