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2007-UP-488 - State v. Johnson

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.� IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Lamont Johnson Appellant.


Appeal From Aiken County
Brooks P. Goldsmith, Circuit Court Judge


Unpublished Opinion No. 2007-UP-488
Submitted October 1, 2007 � Filed October 15, 2007


APPEAL DISMISSED


Assistant Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia; and Solicitor Barbara R. Morgan, of Aiken, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:� Lamont Johnson appeals his plea of guilty but mentally ill and sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment for voluntary manslaughter, arguing the trial court failed to comply with the mandates set forth in Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969), in accepting his plea. After a thorough review of the record and counsel�s brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we dismiss[1] Johnson�s appeal and grant counsel�s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

HEARN, C.J., KITTREDGE and CURETON, JJ., concur.


[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.