Gene Cooper v. State

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

Gene Tony Cooper, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2018-001149

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal From Lexington County
J. Cordell Maddox, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2023-UP-036
Submitted December 1, 2022 – Filed February 1, 2023

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Lara Mary Caudy, of Columbia, for
Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Deputy
Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant
Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, and
Senior Assistant Attorney General W. Edgar Salter, III,
all of Columbia, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: We granted Gene Tony Cooper's petition for a writ of certiorari to
review the post-conviction relief court's denial of relief. We now dismiss the writ
as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED. 1

GEATHERS, McDONALD, and HILL, JJ., concur.

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