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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court Eugene A. Gardner III, Petitioner, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2017-000881 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI Appeal from Darlington County G. Thomas Cooper Jr., Circuit Court Judge Memorandum Opinion No. 2019-MO-024 Submitted January 15, 2019 – Filed May 8, 2019 CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan M. Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Megan Harrigan Jameson, and Assistant Attorney General Johnny Ellis James Jr., all of Columbia, 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 post-conviction relief court's order granting relief. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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