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 Supreme Court

Curtis Patterson, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal from Aiken County
Costa M. Pleicones, Plea Judge
�Doyet A. Early, III, Post-Conviction Judge

Memorandum Opinion No.� 2011-MO-031
Submitted November 16, 2011 � Filed November 21, 2011�

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Appellate Defender Kathrine H. Hudgins, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Mary S. Williams, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:� �� We granted a writ of certiorari to review the denial of Petitioner's application for post-conviction relief (PCR).� We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TOAL, C.J., BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.� PLEICONES, J., not participating.