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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Nakia Karreim Johnson, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2018-001355

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Kershaw County Doyet A. Early, III, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2020-MO-002 Heard January 14, 2020 – Filed January 22, 2020

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

E. Charles Grose Jr., Grose Law Firm, of Greenwood, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General William M. Blitch Jr., and Heather Savitz Weiss, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted Nakia Johnson's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Johnson, Op. No. 2018-UP-109 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Mar. 14, 2018). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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