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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

The State, Respondent,

v.

Wayland Purnell, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2017-001920

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Richland County Clifton Newman, Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 2019-MO-032 Heard January 31, 2019 – Filed July 24, 2019

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Lara M. Caudy, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Vann Henry Gunter, Jr. and Interim Solicitor Heather S. Weiss, all of Columbia, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted Wayland Purnell's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Purnell, Op. No. 2017-UP-272 (S.C. Ct. App. filed July 5, 2017). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., HEARN, FEW and JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justice Paul E. Short, concur.