DocketNumber： 2008-UP-509
Filed Date： 9/8/2008
Status： Non-Precedential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 239(d)(2), SCACR.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals
In the Matter of the Care and Treatment of Jimmy Ray Turner, Appellant.
Appeal From Anderson County
Alexander S. Macaulay, Circuit Court
Judge
Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-509
Submitted September 2, 2008 Filed
September 8, 2008
Withdrawn, Substituted, and Refiled September
12, 2008
APPEAL DISMISSED
Cameron Grant Boggs, of Greenville, for Appellant.
Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General, John W. McIntosh, Chief Deputy Attorney General, R. Westmoreland Clarkson, Assistant Attorney General, Deborah R.J. Shupe, Assistant Attorney General, all of Columbia, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Jimmy Ray Turner appeals his commitment under the South Carolina Sexually Violent Predator Act (the Act). Turner argues his confinement is unconstitutional because the Act violates the South Carolina Constitution. Pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), Turners counsel attached a petition to be relieved, stating he reviewed the record and concluded this appeal lacks merit. After a thorough review of the record and counsels brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), In re McCoy, 360 S.C. 425, 602 S.E.2d 58 (2004) (adopting the Anders procedure for alleged no-merit appeals in sexually violent predator involuntary commitment appeals), and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we dismiss[1] Turners appeal and grant counsels motion to be relieved.
APPEAL DISMISSED.
SHORT, THOMAS, and PIEPER, JJ., concur.
[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.