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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Respondent, v. Terry Gerrard Gridine, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2025-000362

Appeal from Richland County Jocelyn Newman, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2025-MO-044 Heard November 18, 2025 – Filed November 26, 2025

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Joanna Katherine Delany, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Assistant Attorney General Joshua Abraham Edwards, and Solicitor Byron E. Gipson, of Columbia, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Gridine, Op. No. 2025-UP-009 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Jan. 8, 2025). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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