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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court


The State, Petitioner,

v.

Henry Poplin, Respondent.


ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS


Appeal From Richland County
 G. Thomas Cooper, Jr., Circuit Court Judge


Memorandum Opinion No.  2008-MO-030
Heard May 28, 2008 – Filed July 7, 2008 


DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED


Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General David A. Spencer, and Warren Blair Giese, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Deputy Chief Appellate Defender for Capital Appeals Robert M. Dudek, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent.


PER CURIAM:  After full review of the Appendix and briefs, the writ of certiorari is

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

TOAL, C.J., MOORE, PLEICONES, BEATTY, JJ., and Acting Justice James W. Johnson, Jr., concur.