DocketNumber： 2010-UP-042
Filed Date： 1/26/2010
Status： Non-Precedential
Modified Date： 10/22/2024
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
The State, Respondent,
v.
Troy Lavern Pearson, Appellant.
Appeal From Sumter County
Ralph F. Cothran, Circuit Court Judge
Unpublished Opinion No. 2010-UP-042
Submitted January 4, 2010 Filed January
26, 2010
APPEAL DISMISSED
Senior Appellate Attorney Joseph L. Savitz, III, South Carolina Commission of Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, Cecil Kelly Jackson, Third Circuit Solicitor's Office, of Sumter, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Troy Lavern Pearson pled guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter. Pearson appeals his sentence of thirty years. Pearson's counsel attached to the brief a petition to be relieved as counsel, stating that he had reviewed the record and concluded this appeal lacks merit. Pearson did file a pro se brief.
After a thorough review of the record, counsel's brief, and Pearson's pro se brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967) and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we dismiss[1] the appeal and grant counsel's petition to be relieved.
APPEAL DISMISSED
HUFF, A.C.J., GEATHERS, J., and CURETON, A.J., concur.
[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.