THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Jack L. Hinton, Jr.,        Respondent,

v.

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

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Greenville County
Charles B. Simmons, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 25994
Heard May 5, 2005 – Filed June 6, 2005

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Deputy Director Teresa A. Knox, Legal Counsel J. Benjamin Aplin, Legal Counsel Lovee McKinney Watts, all of South Carolina Department of Probation, Pardon and Parole, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

William M. Hagood, III, Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason, of Greenville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  We granted a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ opinion in Hinton v. S.C. Dep’t of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Servs., 357 S.C. 327, 592 S.E.2d 335 (Ct. App. 2004).   We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TOAL, C.J., MOORE, WALLER, BURNETT and PLEICONES, JJ., concur.