Mack v. State

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

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

John Willie Mack, Sr., Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2017-001570

Appeal From Spartanburg County
Robin B. Stilwell, Trial Judge
J. Derham Cole, DNA Court Judge
Robin B. Stilwell, PCR Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-386
Submitted October 1, 2019 – Filed December 18, 2019

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender Jessica M. Saxon, of Columbia, for
Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior
Assistant Deputy Attorney General Megan Harrigan
Jameson, and Assistant Attorney General Johnny Ellis
James, Jr., all of Columbia, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following
authorities: S.C. Code Ann. § 17-28-60 (2014) ("The performance of counsel
pursuant to this article shall not form the basis for relief in any post-conviction
relief proceeding."); State v. Jacobs, 393 S.C. 584, 587, 713 S.E.2d 621, 622
(2011) ("[A] court must abide by the plain meaning of the words of a statute.").

AFFIRMED.1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and KONDUROS and HILL, JJ., concur.

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