Opinion
2017-MO-010
05-31-2017
The State, Respondent, v. Wayne Albeon Scott, Jr., Petitioner. Appellate Case No. 2016-000067
Appellate Defender LaNelle Cantey DuRant, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General J. Robert Bolchoz, and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, all of Columbia; Solicitor Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence, all for Respondent.
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Heard May 2, 2017
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS
Appeal From Florence County Howard King, Circuit Court Judge
Appellate Defender LaNelle Cantey DuRant, of Columbia, for Petitioner.
Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General J. Robert Bolchoz, and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, all of Columbia; Solicitor Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence, all for Respondent.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PER CURIAM
We granted Wayne Albeon Scott, Jr.'s petition for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the circuit court's refusal to grant Scott immunity under the South Carolina Protection of Persons and Property Act. State v. Scott, Op. No. 2015-UP-513 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Nov. 12, 2015). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.
DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.
BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, HEARN, FEW, JJ., and Acting Justice DeAndrea Benjamin, concur.