State v. Greene

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.

Wilton Q. Greene, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2013-001184

Appeal From Berkeley County
J. C. Nicholson, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-086
Submitted January 1, 2015 – Filed February 25, 2015

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender Susan Barber Hackett, of Columbia,
for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant
Attorney General Jennifer Ellis Roberts, both of
Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett Anne Wilson, of
Charleston, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following
authorities: State v. Pagan, 369 S.C. 201, 208, 631 S.E.2d 262, 265 (2006) ("An
abuse of discretion occurs when the conclusions of the trial court either lack
evidentiary support or are controlled by an error of law."); S.C. Code Ann. § 17-1-
50(B)(1) (2014) ("[W]henever a party, witness, or victim in a criminal legal
proceeding does not sufficiently understand or speak the English language to
comprehend the proceeding or to testify, the court must appoint a certified or
otherwise qualified interpreter to interpret the proceedings to the party or victim or
to interpret the testimony of the witness."); S.C. Code Ann. § 17-1-50(A)(4)(d)
(2014) (defining "qualified interpreter" as a person who "has education, training, or
experience that enables him to speak English and a foreign language fluently, and
is readily able to interpret simultaneously and consecutively and to sight-translate
documents from English into the language of a nonEnglish speaking person, or
from the language of that person into spoken English").

AFFIRMED.1

WILLIAMS, GEATHERS, and McDONALD, JJ., concur.

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