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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. William Lee Carpenter, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2021-000711

Appeal from Greenville County Letitia H. Verdin, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2023-MO-004 Heard January 12, 2023 – Filed January 25, 2023

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Fletcher N. Smith Jr., of the Law Firm of Fletcher N.

Smith Jr., LLC, of Greenville; and Elizabeth Anne Franklin-Best, of Elizabeth Franklin-Best, P.C., of Columbia, both for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General William M. Blitch Jr., both of Columbia; and Solicitor William Walter Wilkins III, of Greenville, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in State v. Carpenter, Op. No. 2021-UP-182 (S.C. Ct. App. filed May 19, 2021). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

KITTREDGE, Acting Chief Justice, HEARN, FEW, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justice H. Bruce Williams, concur.