THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Suzanna Brown Simpson, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2019-000500

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Pickens County Brian M. Gibbons, Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 27937 Heard January 14, 2020 – Filed January 22, 2020

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

J. Falkner Wilkes, of Greenville, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, Assistant Attorney General Susannah Rawl Cole, all of Columbia; and Solicitor William Walter Wilkins III, of Greenville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Simpson, 425 S.C. 522, 823 S.E.2d 229 (Ct. App. 2019). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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