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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Maurice Long,        Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina,        Respondent.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Saluda County
James W. Johnson, Jr., Trial Judge
James R. Barber, III, Post-Conviction Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2004-MO-039
Submitted June 23, 2004 - Filed July 26, 2004

 DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

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

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

PER CURIAM:  We granted a writ of certiorari to review the denial of petitioner’s application for Post-Conviction Relief.  We dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TOAL, C.J., MOORE, WALLER, BURNETT and PLEICONES, JJ., concur.