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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Maurice Anthony Odom, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2018-001676

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Edgefield County R. Knox McMahon, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2020-MO-001 Heard December 11, 2019 – Filed January 22, 2020

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Attorney General David A. Spencer, both of Columbia; and Solicitor Samuel R. Hubbard III, of Lexington, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Odom, Op. No. 2018-UP-273 (S.C. Ct. App. filed June 27, 2018).

We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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