THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

South Carolina Department of Corrections, Respondent,

v.

Billy Joe Cartrette, Petitioner.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Jasper County
James C. Williams, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 27094
Submitted January 26, 2012 – Filed February 22, 2012  

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Billy Joe Cartrette, of Ridgeland, Pro-se Petitioner.

Lake Eric Summers and Katherine Phillips, both of Malone, Thompson, Summers & Ott, of Columbia, for Respondent.

CHIEF JUSTICE TOAL:  We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in South Carolina Department of Corrections v. Cartrette, 387 S.C. 640, 694 S.E.2d 18 (Ct. App. 2010).  We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.     

PLEICONES, BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.