Jerald D. Gaskins v. State

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court Jerald D. Gaskins, Jr., Respondent, v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2025-001072

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Greenville County Alex Kinlaw Jr., Post-Conviction Relief Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2026-MO-005 Heard April 22, 2026 – Filed May 6, 2026

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

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

Clarence Rauch Wise, of Greenwood, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Gaskins v. State, Op. No. 2025-UP-046 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb. 5, 2025). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

KITTREDGE, C.J., FEW, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justices Michael Gary Nettles and Debra Ruilova McCaslin, concur.