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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Antwain D. Ellis, Respondent,

v.

State of South Carolina, Petitioner.

On Writ of Certiorari

Appeal From Richland County
 L. Casey Manning, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2008-MO-046
Submitted November 19, 2008 – November 24, 2008  

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 David Spencer, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  We granted a writ of certiorari to review the grant of post-conviction relief (PCR) to Respondent, Antwain Ellis.  We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted. 

TOAL, C.J., WALLER, BEATTY and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur. PLEICONES, J., not participating.