THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING

EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Supreme Court

Travaughn Thomas, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2014-001870

Appeal From Greenville County

Robin B. Stilwell, Post-Conviction Relief Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2016-MO-025

Submitted June 16, 2016 – Filed July 20, 2016

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Susan B. Hackett, of Columbia, for

Petitioner.

Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Karen C.

Ratigan, of Columbia, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the post- conviction relief judge. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted. DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED. PLEICONES, C.J., BEATTY, KITTREDGE, HEARN and FEW, JJ., concur.