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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Benjamin Huggins, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

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

Memorandum Opinion No.  2009-MO-004
Submitted January 22, 2009 – Filed January 26, 2009 

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Tricia A. Blanchette, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Brian T. Petrano, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the post-conviction relief court’s denial of relief to petitioner.  We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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