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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

The State, Respondent,

v.

Kevin Jerome Gilliard, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2012-213344

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Anderson County J. Cordell Maddox, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 2015-MO-041 Heard June 16, 2015 – Filed July 15, 2015

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan M. Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Deborah R.J. Shupe, both of Columbia, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Gilliard, Op. No. 2012-UP-351 (S.C. Ct. App. filed June 13, 2012). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

PLEICONES, Acting Chief Justice, BEATTY, KITTREDGE, HEARN, JJ., and Acting Justice James E. Moore, concur.