Opinion
2015-UP-372
07-29-2015
The State, Respondent, v. Sheldon Lamar Kelly, Appellant. Appellate Case No. 2014-000918
Appellate Defender David Alexander, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, both of Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett Anne Wilson, of Charleston, for Respondent.
UNPUBLISHED OPINION
Submitted July 1, 2015
Appeal From Charleston County Roger M. Young, Sr., Circuit Court Judge
Appellate Defender David Alexander, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, both of Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett Anne Wilson, of Charleston, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM
Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: State v. Jacobs, 393 S.C. 584, 586, 713 S.E.2d 621, 622 (2011) ("In criminal cases, the appellate court sits to review errors of law only. A sentence will not be overturned absent an abuse of discretion when the ruling is based on an error of law . . . ." (internal citation and quotation marks omitted)); S.C. Code Ann. § 17-25-45(A)(1)(a) (2014) (providing except where the death penalty is imposed, "upon a conviction for a most serious offense as defined by this section, a person must be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole if that person has . . . one or more prior convictions for . . . a most serious offense"); S.C. Code Ann. § 17-25-45(C)(1) (2014) (classifying voluntary manslaughter and kidnapping as "most serious" offenses); State v. Standard, 351 S.C. 199, 206, 569 S.E.2d 325, 329 (2002) ("[A]n enhanced sentence based upon a prior most serious conviction for a crime which was committed as a juvenile does not offend evolving standards of decency so as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment." (emphasis omitted)).
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
THOMAS, KONDUROS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.