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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Rikam Ikkesh Dozier, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2014-000694

Appeal from Lexington County Edgar W. Dickson, Post-Conviction Relief Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2016-MO-002 Submitted December 1, 2015 – Filed February 3, 2016

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Aimee Jendrzejewski Zmroczek, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Patrick Lowell Schmeckpeper, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the denial of Petitioner Rikam Dozier's application for post-conviction relief. After careful consideration of the Appendix and briefs, the writ of certiorari is

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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