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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Russell W. Rice, Jr., Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2014-002602

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Greenville County Robin B. Stilwell, Circuit Court Judge.

Opinion No. 2015-MO-069 Heard November 5, 2015 – Filed December 2, 2015

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Karen C. Ratigan, and John Walter Whitmire, of McCabe, Trotter & Beverly, P.C., all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' opinion in Rice v. State, Op. No. 2014-UP-361 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Oct. 15, 2014). We now dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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