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.
UNPUBLISHED OPINION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 dismissed 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.").
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
APPEAL DISMISSED.
SHORT, KONDUROS, and LOCKEMY, JJ., concur.