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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Jimmy R. Taylor, Appellant.

Appeal From Orangeburg County
 Diane S. Goodstein, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2009-UP-148
Submitted March 2, 2009 – Filed March 30, 2009  

AFFIRMED

Everett K. Chandler, of Aiken, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General Christina J. Catoe, all of Columbia; and Solicitor David M. Pascoe, of Orangeburg, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Jimmy R. Taylor appeals his conviction for felony driving under the influence.  Taylor alleges the trial court erred in admitting the testimony of the State’s expert witness after the State allegedly violated a pre-trial agreement concerning the subject of the expert testimony.  We affirm pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities:    State v. Jamison, 372 S.C. 649, 652, 643 S.E.2d 700, 701 (Ct. App. 2007) (“The qualification of a witness as an expert and the admissibility of his or her testimony are matters left to the sound discretion of the trial judge, whose decision will not be reversed on appeal absent an abuse of that discretion and prejudice to the opposing party.”); State v. Johnson, 306 S.C. 119, 127-28, 410 S.E.2d 547, 552-53 (1991) (holding there is no reversible error where the defendant fails to demonstrate prejudice resulting from the violation of a pre-trial agreement with the solicitor and the solicitor attempts in good faith to comply with the agreement). 

AFFIRMED.[1]

HEARN, C.J., PIEPER and LOCKEMY, concur.

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