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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Jason Franklin Carver, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2021-001505

Appeal from Anderson County R. Lawton McIntosh, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2023-MO-010 Heard June 8, 2023 – Filed June 14, 2023

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Donald Loren Smith, of Attorney Office of Donald Smith, of Anderson, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General W. Jeffrey Young, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Carver, Op. No. 2021-UP-278 (S.C. Ct. App. filed July 21, 2021). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, FEW, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justice Kaye G. Hearn, concur.