State v. McFadden

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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.

Travis Jacqueese McFadden, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2016-002531

Appeal From Sumter County
W. Jeffrey Young, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-192
Submitted May 1, 2020 – Filed June 24, 2020

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of
Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant
DeputyAttorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., and Assistant
Attorney General Vann Henry Gunter, Jr., all of Columbia, and
Solicitor Ernest Adolphus Finney, III, of Sumter, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Travis Jacqueese McFadden asserts on appeal his guilty plea was
not voluntary because the State did not disclose a sentencing recommendation to
the plea court. We affirm pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following
authorities: State v. Dunbar, 356 S.C. 138, 142, 587 S.E.2d 691, 693-94 (2003)
("In order for an issue to be preserved for appellate review, it must have been
raised to and ruled upon by the [plea] judge. Issues not raised and ruled upon in
the [plea] court will not be considered on appeal."); State v. McKinney, 278 S.C.
107, 108, 292 S.E.2d 598, 599 (1982) (requiring an appellant assert the
involuntariness of a guilty plea before the trial court to preserve the issue for
appellate review).

AFFIRMED.1

WILLIAMS, KONDUROS, and HILL, JJ., concur.

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