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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Kevin Shane Epting, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2017-000696

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal from Laurens County D. Garrison Hill, Trial Court Judge Brooks P. Goldsmith, Post-Conviction Relief Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2019-MO-043 Heard November 21, 2019 – Filed December 4, 2019

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Janell Gregory, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the post-conviction relief (PCR) court's denial of Kevin Shane Epting's application for PCR. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

KITTREDGE, Acting Chief Justice, HEARN, FEW, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justice Stephanie Pendarvis McDonald, concur.