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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Danny Ryant, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2013-000400

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Orangeburg County Edgar W. Dickson, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2015-MO-004 Heard January 13, 2015 – Filed January 28, 2015

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka , Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, all of Columbia, and Solicitor David Michael Pascoe, Jr., of Orangeburg, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' opinion in State v. Ryant, Op. No. 2012-UP-647 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Dec. 5, 2012). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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