State v. Taste

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PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Rashaun L. Taste, Appellant.

Appeal From Orangeburg County

J. Michael Baxley, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-660

Submitted December 1, 2008 – Filed
December 4, 2008   

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, 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 David M. Pascoe, Jr., of Summerville; for
Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Rashaun
Taste appeals his convictions and sentences for criminal domestic violence,
failure to stop for a blue light, and resisting arrest.  Taste argues his
guilty plea did not comply with the mandates set forth in Boykin v. Alabama,
395 U.S. 238 (1969), and insufficient facts existed to support his guilty plea.  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]

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

HEARN,
C.J., SHORT and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.   

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