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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

The State, Respondent,

v.

Jeffrey S. Evans, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2010-180746 __________

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS __________

Appeal from Anderson County Alexander S. Macaulay, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2012-MO-037 Heard October 2, 2012 – Filed October 10, 2012

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender LaNelle Cantey DuRant, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Deputy Attorney General David A. Spencer, all of Columbia, and, Solicitor Christina T. Adams, of Anderson, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals affirming the Petitioner's convictions. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted. TOAL, C.J., PLEICONES, BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.