State v. Isreal

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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.

Clifton Emanuel Isreal, Appellant.

Appeal From Marion County

 R. Markley Dennis, Jr., Circuit Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.  2008-UP-309

Submitted June 1, 2008 – Filed June 12,
2008

DISMISSED

Chief Attorney Joseph Savitz, III, South Carolina Commission for
Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott,
Office of the Attorney General, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Edgar L.
Clements, III, of Florence, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Clifton Isreal appeals his guilty plea to burglary, arguing
the trial judge should have recused himself from the case because he attended
law school with the victim.  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 Isreal’s appeal and grant counsel’s
motion to be relieved.[1]

DISMISSED.

HEARN,
C.J., CURETON, A.J., and GOOLSBY, A.J., concur.

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