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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Mario Valerio Gonzalez Hernandez, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2017-002206

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Newberry County Eugene C. Griffith Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2019-MO-017 Heard March 26, 2019 – Filed April 3, 2019

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Graham R. Billings, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Blake T. Williams, Of Columbia, both of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, and Chief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek, of Columbia, all for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, both of Columbia; and Solicitor David Matthew Stumbo, of Greenwood, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Hernandez, Op. No. 2017-UP-324 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Aug. 2, 2017). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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