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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Ricky Dale Gilstrap, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2011-190808

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Greenville County The Honorable Robin B. Stilwell, Post-Conviction Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2014-MO-008 Submitted January 7, 2014 – Filed March 12, 2014

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, and Dayne C. Phillips, of Lexington, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Karen Christine Ratigan, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted Ricky Dale Gilstrap's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the denial of his 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.