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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Dana Rikard, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal from Lexington County
James W. Johnson, Jr., Trial Judge
John M. Milling, Post-Conviction Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2012-MO-017
Submitted May 23, 2012 – Filed May 30, 2012  

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Kathrine H. Hudgins, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Kaelon May, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  We granted a writ of certiorari to review the denial of Petitioner's application for post-conviction relief (PCR).  We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TOAL, C.J., PLEICONES, BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.