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

Appellate Case No. 2022-000052

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Charleston County Thomas A. Russo, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2023-MO-005 Submitted January 17, 2023 – Filed February 15, 2023

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender David Alexander, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Megan Harrigan Jameson, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Stone v. State, Op. No. 2021-UP-372 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Nov. 3, 2021).

We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

KITTREDGE, Acting Chief Justice, HEARN, FEW, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justice Paula H. Thomas, concur.