State v. Godard

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.

Jermaine
Antonio Godard, Appellant.

Appeal From Aiken County

 Reginald I. Lloyd, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.   2007-UP-407

Submitted October 1, 2007 – Filed October
4, 2007

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, South Carolina Commission
on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Teresa A Knox, S.C. Dept. of Probation Parole & Pardon, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Appellant, Jermaine Antonio Godard, pled guilty to
assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and was sentenced to five
years imprisonment, suspended to three years of probation.  Following a
probation revocation hearing, the court revoked four years of Godard’s
suspended sentence and terminated his probation.  Godard’s counsel attached to the brief a petition
to be relieved as counsel, stating that she had reviewed the record and
concluded this appeal lacks merit.  Godard did not file a separate pro se brief.  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] the appeal and grant counsel’s petition to be relieved.

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

HEARN,
CJ., HUFF, and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur.

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