THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Supreme Court

The State, Petitioner,

v.

Diamon D. Fripp, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2012-212201

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Beaufort County

The Honorable J. Ernest Kinard, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 27472

Heard December 10, 2014 – Filed December 23, 2014

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney

General John W. McIntosh and Senior Assistant Deputy

Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, all of Columbia and

Solicitor Isaac McDuffie Stone, III, of Beaufort, for

Petitioner.

Jared Sullivan Newman, of Jared S. Newman, P.A., of

Port Royal, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' opinion in State v. Fripp, 397 S.C. 455, 725 S.E.2d 136 (Ct. App. 2012). We now dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted and further direct the Court of Appeals to depublish its opinion and assign the matter an unpublished opinion number. The above opinion shall no longer have any precedential effect.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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