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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court Hubert Brown, Respondent.

v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2020-001261

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from York County Frank R. Addy, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2022-MO-002 Heard February 1, 2022 – Filed February 9, 2022

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Yasmeen Ebbini Klein, both of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Brown v. State, Op. No. 2020-UP-144 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Aug. 19, 2020). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, HEARN, FEW, JJ., and Acting Justice D.

Garrison Hill, concur.