State v. Blackwell

THIS
OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT
SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS
PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF

SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of
Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Eric
Dwayne Blackwell Appellant.

Appeal From

Cherokee

County

J. Derham Cole, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished
Opinion No.  2007-UP-483

Submitted
October 1, 2007 – Filed October 12, 2007

APPEAL
DISMISSED

Chief Attorney Joseph L. Savitz, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia,
for Appellant.

Attorney
General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Harold W. Gowdy, III, of Spartanburg.

PER CURIAM:  Eric Dwayne Blackwell appeals his guilty plea for
murder and life sentence.  Blackwell
argues he received ineffective assistance of counsel on his guilty plea.  After a thorough review of the record pursuant
to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and State v. Williams,
305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we dismiss[1] Blackwell’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

HEARN, C.J., HUFF and KITTREDGE,
JJ., concur.

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