Santiago v. State

Full title: Christopher Santiago, Petitioner, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent…

Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Date published: Dec 30, 2015

2015-UP-576 (S.C. Ct. App. Dec. 30, 2015)

Opinion

2015-UP-576

12-30-2015

Christopher Santiago, Petitioner, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent. Appellate Case No. 2012-207568

Richard A. Harpootlian, of Richard A. Harpootlian, PA, and Graham L. Newman, of Chappell Smith & Arden, both of Columbia, and M. David Scott, of Jordan, Rauton & Scott, LLC of Lexington, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Karen Christine Ratigan, Assistant Attorney General Ashleigh Rayanna Wilson, Assistant Deputy Attorney General James Rutledge Johnson, and Assistant Attorney General John Croom Colvin Hunter; all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM.

UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Submitted December 7, 2015

Appeal From Beaufort County Perry M. Buckner, III, Post-Conviction Relief Judge

Richard A. Harpootlian, of Richard A. Harpootlian, PA, and Graham L. Newman, of Chappell Smith & Arden, both of Columbia, and M. David Scott, of Jordan, Rauton & Scott, LLC of Lexington, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Karen Christine Ratigan, Assistant Attorney General Ashleigh Rayanna Wilson, Assistant Deputy Attorney General James Rutledge Johnson, and Assistant Attorney General John Croom Colvin Hunter; all of Columbia, for Respondent.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

PER CURIAM.

After careful consideration of the Appendix and briefs, we now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.¹

1 See Ellison v. State, 382 S.C. 189, 191, 676 S.E.2d 671, 672 (2009) (wherein our supreme court extended its decision in two cases to not entertain petitions for a writ of certiorari "to cases in which the Court of Appeals has issued an order denying a writ of certiorari in a PCR matter and in cases in which the Court of Appeals initially issues an order granting a writ of certiorari in such matters but later issues an opinion dismissing the writ as improvidently granted without further discussion of the case") (emphasis added).

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED. ^[2]

[2] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR. ---------

HUFF and THOMAS, JJ, and CURETON, AJ, concur