State v. Roberts

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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.

Brenda L. Roberts, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2017-001103

Appeal From Laurens County
Frank R. Addy, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-072
Submitted February 1, 2020 – Filed March 11, 2020

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of
Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior
Assistant Deputy Attorney General William M. Blitch,
Jr., both of Columbia; and Solicitor David Matthew
Stumbo, of Greenwood, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Brenda L. Roberts appeals her conviction and fourteen-year
sentence for accessory after the fact of a felony. Roberts argues the circuit court
erred by admitting three written statements made by a non testifying individual.
We affirm pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: State v.
Young, 420 S.C. 608, 624, 803 S.E.2d 888, 896 (Ct. App. 2017) ("Limiting
instructions are deemed to cure error unless 'it is probable that, notwithstanding the
instruction, the accused was prejudiced.'" (quoting State v. Smith, 290 S.C. 393,
395, 350 S.E.2d 923, 924 (1986))); State v. Patterson, 337 S.C. 215, 226, 522
S.E.2d 845, 850 (Ct. App. 1999) ("Because a trial court's curative instruction is
considered to cure any error regarding improper testimony, a party must
contemporaneously object to a curative instruction as insufficient or move for a
mistrial to preserve an issue for review.").

AFFIRMED.1

WILLIAMS, KONDUROS, and HILL, JJ., concur.

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