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 Supreme Court

Gary J. Long, Jr., Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Sumter County
�Thomas W. Cooper, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No.� 2008-MO-032
Submitted June 26, 2008 � Filed July 14, 2008�

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Keir M. Weyble, of Blume Weyble & Norris, LLC, of Columbia, for petitioner.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster,Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General Lance S. Boozer, of Columbia, for respondent.

PER CURIAM:� We granted this petition for a writ of certiorari to review the circuit court�s order denying petitioner�s post-conviction relief application.� After careful consideration, we now dismiss certiorari as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED.

TOAL, C.J., MOORE, WALLER and PLEICONES, JJ., concur. BEATTY, J., not participating.