Opinion
2012-UP-589
10-31-2012
The State, Respondent, v. Robert Singletary, Appellant. Appellate Case No. 2010-166266
Appellate Defender Breen Richard Stevens, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Deputy Attorney General David A. Spencer, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence, for Respondent.
UNPUBLISHED OPINION
Submitted October 1, 2012
Appeal From Florence County D. Craig Brown, Circuit Court Judge
Appellate Defender Breen Richard Stevens, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Deputy Attorney General David A. Spencer, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM:
Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: State v. Patterson, 337 S.C. 215, 226, 522 S.E.2d 845, 851 (Ct. App. 1999) ("The decision to grant or deny a motion for a mistrial is within the sound discretion of the trial [court] and will not be overturned on appeal absent an abuse in discretion amounting to an error of law."); State v. Kelsey, 331 S.C. 50, 70, 502 S.E.2d 63, 73 (1998) ("The granting of a motion for a mistrial is an extreme measure which should be taken only where an incident is so grievous that prejudicial effect can be removed in no other way."); State v. White, 371 S.C. 439, 444, 639 S.E.2d 160, 163 (Ct. App. 2006) ("A curative instruction to disregard incompetent evidence and not to consider it during deliberation is deemed to have cured any alleged error in its admission." (quoting State v. Walker, 366 S.C. 643, 658, 623 S.E.2d 122, 130 (Ct. App. 2005))).
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
HUFF, THOMAS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.