State v. Hillie

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Tyrone Lydell Hillie, Appellant.

Appeal From York County

 Steven H. John, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2007-UP-372

Submitted September 9, 2007 – Filed September 18, 2007  

APPEAL DISMISSED

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

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Kevin Scott Brackett, of York, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Tyrone Lydell Hillie (Appellant) pled guilty to two counts of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in close proximity of a school or park; two counts of trafficking in crack cocaine weighing ten to twenty-eight grams, second offense; and possession of marijuana, second offense.  He was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of ten years for each of the cocaine charges and one year, concurrent, for the marijuana charge.  In addition, Appellant’s probation was revoked and his suspended sentences were reinstated, to run concurrently with the charges above. 

On appeal, counsel for Appellant has filed a final brief along with a petition to be relieved as counsel.  Appellant has not filed a pro se response.  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 the appeal and grant counsel’s petition to be relieved.          

APPEAL DISMISSED.[1]

HEARN, C.J., and HUFF and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur.

[1]  This case is decided without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.