State v. McCullough

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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.

Sakima K.
McCullough, Appellant.

Appeal From York County

 Lee S. Alford, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-580

Submitted October 1, 2008 – Filed October
15, 2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, of Columbia, for
Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott,
all of Columbia; and Solicitor Kevin Scott Brackett, of York, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  A
jury found Sakima K. McCullough guilty of kidnapping, armed robbery, criminal
conspiracy, first-degree burglary, possession of a firearm during a crime of
violence, and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.  Counsel for
McCullough argues he was deprived of his sixth amendment right to a trial by a
fair and impartial jury when the trial judge failed to excuse a biased juror
for cause.  McCullough also filed a pro se brief.  After a thorough review of
the record and both briefs, 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 McCullough’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.[1] 

APPEAL DISMISSED.

SHORT, THOMAS, and PIEPER, JJ., concur.

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