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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Terrell Denard Knightner, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2023-001436

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Richland County L. Casey Manning, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2024-MO-020 Heard September 11, 2024 – Filed September 25, 2024

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, and Solicitor Byron E. Gipson, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Knightner, Op. No. 2023-UP-161 (S.C. Ct. App. filed April 26, 2023). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

KITTREDGE, C.J., FEW, JAMES, HILL, JJ., and Acting Justice Jennifer Blanchard McCoy, concur.