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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State,        Respondent,

v.

Amos Mack,        Appellant.


Appeal From Orangeburg County
Edward B. Cottingham, Circuit Court Judge


Unpublished Opinion No. 2005-UP-437
Submitted July 1, 2005 – Filed July 13, 2005


APPEAL DISMISSED


Assistant Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, of Columbia, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Robert D. Robbins, of Summerville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Amos Mack was indicted for failure to stop for a blue light or siren.  Mack was tried before a jury in his absence, and the jury found him guilty.  The trial court sentenced Mack to five years imprisonment and revoked Mack’s three-year suspended sentence on a previous conviction.  Mack’s counsel filed a petition to be relieved as counsel.  Mack filed a pro se brief.  After a thorough review of the record 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] the appeal and grant counsel’s petition to be relieved.           

APPEAL DISMISSED.

ANDERSON, STILWELL, and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.


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