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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Tyrel R. Collins, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2016-000877

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Charleston County Roger M. Young, Sr., Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2017-MO-014 Heard May 2, 2017 – Filed July 19, 2017

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Susan B. Hackett, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General J. Robert Bolchoz, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, and Senior Assistant Attorney General Melody J. Brown, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson, of Charleston, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Collins, Op. No. 2016-UP-034 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Jan. 20, 2016). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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