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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Jody Lynn Ward, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2021-000702

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Georgetown County Larry B. Hyman, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2023-MO-001 Heard November 16, 2022 – Filed January 4, 2023

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Tristan Michael Shaffer, of Tristan M. Shaffer Attorney at Law, of Chapin, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown and Senior Assistant Attorney General J. Anthony Mabry all of Columbia, and Solicitor Jimmy A. Richardson, II, of Conway, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the circuit court's dismissal of Petitioner's Rule 29(b) motion for a new trial. State v. Ward, 2021-UP-184 (Ct. App. filed May 19, 2021). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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