State v, Ford

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PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Cedric Jovaugh
Ford, Appellant.

Appeal From Florence County

Edward B. Cottingham, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2010-UP-410  

Submitted September 1, 2010 – Filed
September 16, 2010

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender M. Celia Robinson, of
Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief
Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General
Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Julie M.
Thames, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence,
for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Cedric
Jovaugh Ford appeals his guilty plea for trafficking in cocaine.  On appeal,
Ford argues the trial court erred in failing to suppress the cocaine found
during a checkpoint search. We affirm[1] pursuant to Rule 220(b)(1), SCACR, and the following
authorities: Gibson
v. State, 334 S.C. 515, 523, 514 S.E.2d 320, 324 (1999) ("A
defendant who pleads guilty usually may not later raise independent claims of
constitutional violations.");Rivers v.
Strickland, 264 S.C. 121, 124, 213 S.E.2d 97, 98 (1975) ("The general
rule is that a plea of guilty, voluntarily and understandingly made,
constitutes a waiver of nonjurisdictional defects and defenses, including
claims of violation of constitutional rights prior to the plea."); State
v. Snowdon, 371 S.C. 331, 333, 638 S.E.2d 91, 92 (Ct. App. 2006) ("Generally, a knowing and voluntary guilty plea waives all
non-jurisdictional defects and defenses, including claims of constitutional violations.
A defendant who pleads guilty usually may not later raise independent claims of
constitutional violations.") (quotation marks and citation omitted).

AFFIRMED.

SHORT, THOMAS, and
LOCKEMY, JJ., concur.

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