Edwards v. SCPPP

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

James A.
Edwards, Appellant,

v.

South Carolina
Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services, Respondent.

Appeal From Richland County

G. Thomas Cooper, Jr., Circuit Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2011-UP-073

Submitted February 1, 2011 – Filed
February 23, 2011

AFFIRMED

James A. Edwards, pro se, for Appellant.

Tommy Evans, Jr., of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  James A. Edwards appeals the circuit
court's order granting the South Carolina Department of
Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services's motion to dismiss, arguing the circuit
court erred in holding his parole ineligibility did not violate the Ex Post
Facto Clause.[1] 
We affirm[2] pursuant to Rule 220(b)(1), SCACR, and the following authorities:  Rule 220(c),
SCACR ("The appellate court may affirm any
ruling, order, decision or judgment upon any ground(s) appearing in the Record
on Appeal."); Judy v. Martin, 381 S.C. 455, 458, 674 S.E.2d 151,
153 (2009) ("Under the law-of-the-case doctrine, a party is precluded from
relitigating, after an appeal, matters that were either not raised on appeal,
but should have been, or raised on appeal, but expressly rejected by the
appellate court.").

AFFIRMED.

WILLIAMS, GEATHERS, and LOCKEMY, JJ., concur.

[1] U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 3.

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