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 Curtis Ray Nealey, Petitioner, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2015-000881

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI Appeal from Darlington County R. Ferrell Cothran Jr., Circuit Court Judge Memorandum Opinion No. 2018-MO-004 Submitted January 16, 2018 – Filed February 7, 2018 CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan M. Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Jessica E. Kinard, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted Curtis Nealey's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the post-conviction relief (PCR) court's decision to deny relief. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

KITTREDGE, Acting Chief Justice, HEARN, FEW and JAMES, JJ., concur.

BEATTY, C.J., not participating.