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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

The State, Petitioner,

v.

Ricky Darren Sanders, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2010-173047

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Sumter County R. Ferrell Cothran, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2012-MO-40 Heard October 3, 2012 – Filed October 24, 2012

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., all of Columbia; and Solicitor Ernest Adolphus Finney, III, of Sumter, for Petitioner. Susan Barber Hackett, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in State v. Sanders, Op. No. 2010-UP-362 (S.C. Ct. App. filed July 12, 2010). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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