State v. Johnson

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PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY
PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Lamont Johnson Appellant.

Appeal From Aiken County

Brooks P. Goldsmith, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2007-UP-488

Submitted October 1, 2007 – Filed October 15, 2007

APPEAL DISMISSED

Assistant
Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W.
Elliott, Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia; and Solicitor Barbara R.
Morgan, of Aiken, for Respondent.

PER
CURIAM:  Lamont Johnson appeals his plea of guilty but mentally
ill and sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment for voluntary manslaughter, arguing
the trial court failed to comply with the mandates set forth in Boykin v.
Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969), in accepting his plea. After a thorough
review of the record and counsel’s 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] Johnson’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

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

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