State v. Crim

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EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Daemon Michael Crim, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2018-001915

Appeal From Dorchester County
Diane Schafer Goodstein, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-239
Submitted June 1, 2020 – Filed August 12, 2020

AFFIRMED

Erin E. Bailey, of The Law Office of Erin E. Bailey LLC,
of Georgetown, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant
Attorney General Joshua Abraham Edwards, both of
Columbia; and Solicitor David Michael Pascoe, Jr., of
Orangeburg, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Daemon Crim appeals his concurrent twenty-year sentences and
requirement he register as a sex offender following his guilty plea for two counts
of second-degree criminal sexual conduct (CSC). Because the plea court did not
abuse its discretion in imposing Crim's sentence that was within the statutory
range, we affirm pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities:
In re M.B.H., 387 S.C. 323, 326, 692 S.E.2d 541, 542 (2010) ("A [plea court] has
broad discretion in sentencing within statutory limits."); id. (holding a sentence
will not be overturned absent an abuse of discretion and explaining an abuse of
discretion occurs "when the ruling is based on an error of law or a factual
conclusion without evidentiary support"); S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-653(2) (2015)
("[CSC] in the second degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more
than twenty years according to the discretion of the court."); S.C. Code Ann. § 23-
3-430(C)(2) (Supp. 2019) (explaining that an individual convicted of second
degree CSC shall be required to register as a sex offender).

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, THOMAS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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