State v. Lucas

Full title: The State, Appellant, v. Steve Lucas, Respondent.

Court: STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals

Date published: Sep 12, 2012

Appellate Case No. 2007-071446 (S.C. Ct. App. Sep. 12, 2012)

Opinion

2012-UP-519

09-12-2012

The State, Appellant, v. Steve Lucas, Respondent.

J. Benjamin Aplin, of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, of Columbia, for Appellant. Appellate Defender Elizabeth A. Franklin-Best, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM.

UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Submitted August 1, 2012

Appeal From Lancaster County No. 2007-071446, Brooks P. Goldsmith, Circuit Court Judge.

J. Benjamin Aplin, of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Appellate Defender Elizabeth A. Franklin-Best, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM.

Appeal dismissed¹ pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: Byrd v. Irmo High Sch., 321 S.C. 426, 431, 468 S.E.2d 861, 864 (1996) ("[An appellate c]ourt will not pass on moot and academic questions or make an adjudication where there remains no actual controversy."); Sloan v. Friends of the Hunley, Inc., 369 S.C. 20, 26, 630 S.E.2d 474, 477 (2006) ("A moot case exists where a judgment rendered by the court will have no practical legal effect upon an existing controversy because an intervening event renders any grant of effectual relief impossible for the reviewing court.").

1 We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

SHORT, KONDUROS, and LOCKEMY, JJ., concur.