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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

The State, Respondent,

v.

Michael Edward Gentile, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2017-001277

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Dorchester County Maité Murphy, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2018-MO-042 Heard November 29, 2018 – Filed December 12, 2018

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General William Frederick Schumacher IV, both of Columbia; and Solicitor David Michael Pascoe Jr., of Orangeburg, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Gentile, Op. No. 2017-UP-108 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Mar. 8, 2017). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

KITTREDGE, Acting Chief Justice, FEW, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justices Stephanie Pendarvis McDonald and Aphrodite K. Konduros, concur.