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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Mutekis Jamar Williams, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2022-001228

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Charleston County R. Markley Dennis, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2024-MO-002 Heard October 25, 2023 – Filed January 17, 2024

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Clarence Rauch Wise, of Greenwood, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, both of Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett Anne Wilson, of Charleston, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in State v. Williams, Op. No. 2022-UP-114 (S.C. Ct. App. filed June 8, 2022). We now dismiss the writ on the basis it was improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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