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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court Michael Elders, Respondent, v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2020-000891

Appeal from Lexington County Brooks P. Goldsmith, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2021-MO-011 Heard October 13, 2021 – Filed October 20, 2021

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, and Assistant Attorney General Lillian L. Meadows, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Taylor Davis Gilliam, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Elders v. State, Op. No. 2020-UP-093 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Apr. 8, 2020).

We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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