In the Matter of Alton M. Chisolm

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

In the Matter
of the Care and Treatment of Alton M. Chisolm, Appellant.

Appeal From Charleston County

Deadra L. Jefferson, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.  2011-UP-436

Submitted October 1, 2011 - Filed October
11, 2011

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender LaNelle C. DuRant, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy
Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W.
Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Deborah R.J. Shupe, all of Columbia;
and Solicitor David M. Pascoe, Jr., of Summerville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Alton
M. Chisolm appeals his commitment to the South Carolina Department of Mental
Health as a sexually violent predator.  Chisolm argues the circuit court erred
in denying his motion to exclude two 2003 convictions of lewd act upon a
child.  After a thorough
review of the record and counsel's brief pursuant to Anders v. California,
386 U.S. 738 (1967), and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357
(1991), we dismiss the appeal and grant counsel's motion to be relieved.[1]  Additionally, we note a
defendant need not be informed of the consequences of the Sexually Violent
Predator Act for a plea to still be voluntary because sentencing under the Act
is a collateral consequence of a guilty plea.   Page v. State, 364
S.C. 632, 637, 615 S.E.2d 740, 742 (2005).

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

SHORT,
WILLIAMS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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