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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

The State, Respondent,

v.

Marques Hudson, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2010-161526

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS _____________

Appeal From Greenville County C. Victor Pyle, Jr., Circuit Court Judge,

Memorandum Opinion No. 2012-MO-053 Heard November 14, 2012 – Filed December 12, 2012

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

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

Attorney General Alan McCrory 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 William W. Wilkins of Greenville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in State v. Hudson, Op. No. 2010-UP-141 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb. 22, 2010). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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