Bell v. State

Full title: Braxton Bell, Petitioner, v. The State, Respondent. Appellate Case No…

Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina

Date published: Oct 9, 2013

2013-MO-030 (S.C. Oct. 9, 2013)

Opinion

2013-MO-030

10-09-2013

Braxton Bell, Petitioner, v. The State, Respondent. Appellate Case No. 2010-178807

LaNelle Cantey DuRant of Columbia, South Carolina, for Petitioner, Braxton Bell. Attorney General Alan M. Wilson, Assistant Attorney General Walt Whitmire, both of Columbia, South Carolina, for Respondent State of South Carolina.

PER CURIUM

UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Submitted September 17, 2013

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Anderson County R. Lawton McIntosh, Circuit Court Judge

LaNelle Cantey DuRant of Columbia, South Carolina, for Petitioner, Braxton Bell.

Attorney General Alan M. Wilson, Assistant Attorney General Walt Whitmire, both of Columbia, South Carolina, for Respondent State of South Carolina.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PER CURIUM

We granted certiorari to review the post-conviction relief court's decision in Braxton Bell v. State of South Carolina, 2008-CP-04-4101 (10^th Judicial Cir. Nov. 10, 2010), denying and dismissing with prejudice Petitioner's application for post-conviction relief and finding that Petitioner did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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