THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Jo Pradubsri, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2017-002061 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS Appeal from Lexington County Clifton Newman, Circuit Court Judge Opinion No. 27890 Heard May 8, 2019 – Filed May 22, 2019 CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Joanna Katherine Delany, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., both of Columbia, and Solicitor Samuel R. Hubbard III, of Lexington, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted Jo Pradubsri's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals affirming his conviction. State v. Pradubsri, 420 S.C. 629, 803 S.E.2d 724 (Ct. App. 2017). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, HEARN, FEW, JJ., and Acting Justice Roger L. Couch, concur.