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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court


Michael J. Davis, Respondent,

v.

State of South Carolina, Petitioner.


Appeal From Laurens County
 Wyatt T. Saunders, Jr, Circuit Court Judge


Memorandum Opinion No.  2007-MO-070
Submitted November 15, 2007 – Filed December 17, 2007 


DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED


Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Julie Thames, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

John A. O’Leary, of O’Leary & Associates, PA, of Columbia, for Respondents.


PER CURIAM:  We granted the state’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review the grant of Post-Conviction Relief (PCR) to Respondent, Michael J. Davis.   We dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED. 

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