State v. Mathia L. Chambers

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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

The State, Respondent,

v.

Mathia Lamont Chambers, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2022-000689

Appeal From Lexington County
Walton J. McLeod, IV, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2024-UP-387
Submitted November 1, 2024 – Filed November 20, 2024

AFFIRMED

Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of
Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior
Assistant Deputy Attorney General Mark Reynolds
Farthing, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Mathia Lamont Chambers appeals his conviction for voluntary
manslaughter and sentence of thirty years' imprisonment. On appeal, Chambers
argues the plea court erred in refusing to award credit for time served on monitored
house arrest. We affirm pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR.
We hold the plea court did not abuse its discretion in denying Chambers's motion
to reconsider and refusing to credit him with any time served while on monitored
house arrest because the plea court was not required to award such credit under the
statute. See State v. Pogue, 430 S.C. 384, 386, 844 S.E.2d 397, 398 (Ct. App.
2020) ("A sentence will not be overturned absent an abuse of discretion . . . ."
(quoting In re M.B.H., 387 S.C. 323, 326, 692 S.E.2d 541, 542 (2010))); State v.
King, 367 S.C. 131, 136, 623 S.E.2d 865, 868 (Ct. App. 2005) ("An abuse of
discretion occurs when the decision by the [plea court] is based on an error of
law."); S.C. Code Ann. § 24-13-40 (Supp. 2021) ("In every case in computing the
time served by a prisoner, full credit against the sentence must be given for time
served prior to trial and sentencing, and may be given for any time spent under
monitored house arrest." (emphasis added)).

AFFIRMED. 1

WILLIAMS, C.J., and MCDONALD and TURNER, JJ., concur.

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