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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Wayne Albeon Scott, Jr., Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2016-000067

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Florence County Howard King, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2017-MO-010 Heard May 2, 2017 – Filed May 31, 2017

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender LaNelle Cantey DuRant, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General J. Robert Bolchoz, and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, all of Columbia; Solicitor Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted Wayne Albeon Scott, Jr.'s petition for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the circuit court's refusal to grant Scott immunity under the South Carolina Protection of Persons and Property Act. State v. Scott, Op. No. 2015-UP-513 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Nov. 12, 2015). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, HEARN, FEW, JJ., and Acting Justice DeAndrea Benjamin, concur.