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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

In the Matter of the Care and Treatment of Calvin Joe Miller, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2017-001362

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Greenville County R. Lawton McIntosh, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2019-MO-008 Heard January 30, 2019 – Filed February 6, 2019

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Deborah R.J. Shupe, both of Columbia, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted Calvin Joe Miller's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision to affirm Miller's commitment under the South Carolina Sexually Violent Predator Act. In re Care & Treatment of Miller, Op. No. 2017-UP-137 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Apr. 5, 2017). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., HEARN, FEW, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justice John D. Geathers, concur.