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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court Ron O'Neal Finklea, Respondent, v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2019-001104

Appeal from Lexington County William P. Keesley, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2024-MO-019 Heard December 13, 2023 – Filed July 31, 2024

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, and Assistant Attorney General William Joseph Maye, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

John H. Blume, III, of Law Office of John Blume; Rosalind Sarah Duval Major, Allison Ann Franz, and Emily C. Paavola, all of Justice 360, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the circuit court's decision granting Ron O'Neal Finklea's application for post-conviction relief. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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