State v. Adams

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CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Antwan Adams, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2016-000836

Appeal From Richland County
DeAndrea G. Benjamin, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-433
Submitted September 1, 2017 – Filed November 22, 2017

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Laura Ruth Baer, of Columbia, for
Appellant.

Thomas Wells Nicholson, of the South Carolina
Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, of
Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Because Appellant has completed his sentence, we dismiss this
appeal as moot. See Sloan v. Greenville Cty., 380 S.C. 528, 535, 670 S.E.2d 663,
667 (Ct. App. 2009) ("An appellate court will not pass judgment on moot and
academic questions; it will not adjudicate a matter when no actual controversy
capable of specific relief exists. A case becomes moot when judgment, if
rendered, will have no practical legal effect upon the existing controversy.
Mootness also arises when some event occurs making it impossible for the
reviewing court to grant effectual relief." (citations omitted)); id. ("The utilization
of an exception under the mootness doctrine is flexible and discretionary pursuant
to South Carolina jurisprudence, not a mechanical rule that is automatically
invoked.").

APPEAL DISMISSED.1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and HUFF and HILL, JJ., concur.

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