State v. Jeremy Brown

THIS OPINION
HAS NO 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.

Jeremy Brown, Appellant.

Appeal from Charleston County

Benjamin H. Culbertson, Circuit Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2010-UP-032

Submitted January 4, 2010 – Filed January
25, 2010 

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellant Defender Kathrine H. Hudgins, 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 Scarlett Anne Wilson,
of Charleston, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Jeremy Brown appeals the trial court's
decision to sentence him to ten years' imprisonment with respect to his conviction
for possession of crack cocaine (third offense or greater), arguing that the
trial court erred in imposing the maximum prison term permitted under S.C. Code
Ann. § 44-53-375(A) (Supp. 2008) in view of the
mitigating evidence presented at sentencing.  After thoroughly reviewing 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 Brown's appeal and grant counsel's petition to be relieved.[1]  

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.