State v. Troy Pearson

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PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT SHOULD NOT BE 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.

Troy Lavern Pearson, Appellant.

Appeal From Sumter County

Ralph F. Cothran, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2010-UP-042

Submitted January 4, 2010 – Filed January
26, 2010   

APPEAL DISMISSED

Senior Appellate Attorney Joseph L.
Savitz, III, South Carolina Commission of Indigent Defense, Division of
Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief
Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General
Salley W. Elliott, Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, Cecil Kelly
Jackson, Third Circuit Solicitor's Office, of Sumter, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Troy Lavern Pearson pled guilty to one
count of voluntary manslaughter.  Pearson appeals his sentence of thirty
years.  Pearson's counsel attached to the brief a petition to be relieved as
counsel, stating that he had reviewed the record and concluded this appeal
lacks merit.  Pearson did file a pro se brief. 

After a thorough
review of the record, counsel's brief, and Pearson's pro se brief
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

HUFF, A.C.J.,
GEATHERS, J., and CURETON, A.J., concur.

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