DocketNumber: 2007-UP-488
Filed Date: 10/15/2007
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 10/14/2024
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
The State, Respondent,
v.
Lamont Johnson Appellant.
Appeal From Aiken County
Brooks P. Goldsmith, Circuit Court Judge
Unpublished Opinion No. 2007-UP-488
Submitted October 1, 2007 Filed October 15, 2007
APPEAL DISMISSED
Assistant Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia; and Solicitor Barbara R. Morgan, of Aiken, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Lamont Johnson appeals his plea of guilty but mentally ill and sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment for voluntary manslaughter, arguing the trial court failed to comply with the mandates set forth in Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969), in accepting his plea. After a thorough review of the record and counsels 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] Johnsons appeal and grant counsels motion to be relieved.
APPEAL DISMISSED.
HEARN, C.J., KITTREDGE and CURETON, JJ., concur.
[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.