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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

The State, Respondent,

v.

Christine Grove, Petitioner.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Georgetown County
John M. Milling, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2009-MO-065
Heard November 18, 2009 – Filed December 14, 2009

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, of Columbia, and Solicitor John Gregory Hembree, of Conway, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  We granted a writ of certiorari to review State v. Grove, Op. No. 2008-UP-278 (S.C. Ct. App. filed May 27, 2008).  We dismiss the writ as improvidently granted. 

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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