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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Petitioner, v. Jimmy Turner, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2016-002204

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Marion County William H. Seals, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2018-MO-35 Heard October 17, 2018 – Filed October 24, 2018

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General John Benjamin Aplin, both of Columbia; and Solicitor Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence, all for Petitioner.

Appellate Defender David Alexander, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted the State's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision to reverse Respondent's convictions due to improper bolstering by an expert witness. State v. Turner, Op. No. 2016-UP-411 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Sept. 21, 2016). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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