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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Reginald Montgomery, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2014-001288

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Orangeburg County J.C. Nicholson, Trial Court Judge Diane Schafer Goodstein, Post-Conviction Relief Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2016-MO-004 Submitted March 15, 2016 – Filed March 23, 2016

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

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

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General James Clayton Mitchell, III, both of Columbia, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted Reginald Montgomery's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the dismissal of his application for post-conviction relief. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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