THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Braxton Bell, Petitioner,

v.

The State, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2010-178807

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Anderson County R. Lawton McIntosh, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2013-MO-030 Submitted September 17, 2013 – Filed October 9, 2013

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

LaNelle Cantey DuRant of Columbia, South Carolina, for Petitioner, Braxton Bell.

Attorney General Alan M. Wilson, Assistant Attorney General Walt Whitmire, both of Columbia, South Carolina, for Respondent State of South Carolina.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the post-conviction relief court's decision in Braxton Bell v. State of South Carolina, 2008-CP-04-4101 (10th Judicial Cir. Nov. 10, 2010), denying and dismissing with prejudice Petitioner's application for post-conviction relief and finding that Petitioner did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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