State v. Pressley

THIS OPINION HAS NO 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.

Earnest Pressley,       
Appellant.

Appeal From Aiken County

William P. Keesley, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.  2004-UP-569

Submitted November 1, 2004 – Filed November 15, 2004

APPEAL DISMISSED

Assistant Appellate Defender Tara S. Taggart, Office of Appellate
Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

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

PER CURIAM:  Earnest Pressley was convicted
of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.  He was sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment.  Pressley appeals. 

Pursuant to Anders v. California,
386 U.S. 738 (1967), counsel for Pressley attached to the final brief a petition
to be relieved as counsel, stating she had reviewed the record and concluded
Pressley’s appeal is without legal merit sufficient to warrant a new trial. 
Pressley did not file a separate pro se response. 

After a thorough review of the record
pursuant to Anders 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]

KITTREDGE, BEATTY, JJ., and CURETON, AJ., concur.

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