DocketNumber： 2003-UP-504
Filed Date： 8/27/2003
Status： Non-Precedential
Modified Date： 10/11/2024
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals
The State, Respondent,
v.
Lawrence J. Perea, Appellant.
Appeal from Aiken County
James R. Barber, Circuit Court Judge
Unpublished Opinion No. 2003-UP-504
Submitted May 30, 2003 Filed August
27, 2003
APPEAL DISMISSED
Assistant Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson, of Columbia, Barbara R. Morgan, Of Aiken, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Lawrence J. Perea appeals his convictions for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, first-degree burglary, and kidnapping. The trial judge sentenced Perea to twenty-one years imprisonment for each charge. After hearing a motion for reconsideration, the judge reduced the sentences to fourteen years imprisonment. The sentences were to be served concurrently.
Pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), counsel for Perea attached to the final brief a petition to be relieved as counsel, stating she had reviewed the record and concluded Pereas appeal is without legal merit sufficient to warrant a new trial. Perea filed a separate pro se response.
After a thorough review of the record pursuant to Anders and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we dismiss the appeal and grant counsels petition to be relieved.
APPEAL DISMISSED.
HEARN, C.J., CONNOR and ANDERSON, JJ., concur.