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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Joshua C. Reher, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2021-001052

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Lexington County Eugene C. Griffith, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2023-MO-002 Heard October 25, 2022 – Filed January 4, 2023

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Jessica M. Saxon, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan M. Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., of Columbia, and Solicitor Samuel R. Hubbard, III, of Lexington, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's evidentiary decision in admitting a firearm experiment. State v. Reher, Op. No. 2021-UP-245 (S.C. Ct. App. filed June 30, 2021). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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