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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court


Ron G. Taylor, Respondent,

v.

State of South Carolina, Petitioner.


ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI


Appeal From Lee County
 Howard P. King, Circuit Court Judge


Opinion No. 2009-MO-021
Submitted April 22, 2009- Filed April 27, 2009  


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 Lance S. Boozer, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent.


PER CURIAM:  Respondent Ron G. Taylor was granted post-conviction relief by the lower court.  We granted the State’s petition for a writ of certiorari.  After a careful review of the record, appendix, and briefs, the writ is

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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