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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

State of South Carolina, Respondent,

v.

Samuel Edward Alexander, Jr., Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2018-001884

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Chesterfield County Roger E. Henderson, Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 2019-MO-046 Heard December 11, 2019 – Filed December 18, 2019

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Taylor Davis Gilliam, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Joshua Abraham Edwards, both of Columbia, and Solicitor William Benjamin Rogers, Jr., of Bennettsville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Samuel Edward Alexander, Jr., Op. No. 2018-UP-335 (S.C. Ct. App. filed July 25, 2018). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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