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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Tommy S. Adams, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2017-000739

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Edgefield County William P. Keesley, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2018-MO-031 Heard September 19, 2018 – Filed September 26, 2018 Amended October 3, 2018

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

E. Charles Grose, Jr., of Greenwood, and Teresa L. Norris, of Charleston, both for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, and Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Adams v. State, No. 2016-UP-515 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Dec. 14, 2016). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, HEARN, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justice Paula H. Thomas, concur.