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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

The State, Respondent,

v.

Tawanda Allen, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2014-002245

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Williamsburg County The Honorable Clifton Newman, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2016-MO-001 Heard December 1, 2015 – Filed January 6, 2016

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Chief Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan M. Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Attorney General Alphonso Simon, Jr., all of Columbia; and Ernest A. Finney, III, of Sumter, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Allen, Op. No. 2014-UP-304 (S.C. Ct. App. filed July 30, 2014). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

PLEICONES, C.J., BEATTY, KITTREDGE, HEARN, JJ., and Acting Justice Jean H. Toal, concur.