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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court


Charles M. Stuckey, Jr., Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.


Appeal From Marlboro County
 John M. Milling, Circuit Court Judge


Memorandum Opinion No. 2008-MO-051
Submitted December 4, 2008 – Filed December 8, 2008  


DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED


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

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General Karen Ratigan, of Columbia, for Respondent.


PER CURIAM:  We granted a writ of certiorari to review the denial of Petitioner’s application for post-conviction relief (PCR).  We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.   

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