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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Jonathan Donell Rhodes, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2020-000045

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Greenville County John C. Hayes III, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2021-MO-001 Heard February 3, 2021 – Filed March 10, 2021

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Chief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek, Appellate Defender Lara Mary Caudy, and Appellate Defender Victor R. Seeger, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, and Assistant Attorney General Tommy Evans Jr., 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. Rhodes, Op. No. 2019-UP-361 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Nov. 6, 2019).

We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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