Title: Sibert v. State

State: south-carolina

Issuer: South Carolina Supreme Court

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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 Supreme Court Ernest Sibert, Respondent, v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI Appeal From Greenville County James E. Lockemy, Circuit Court Judge Memorandum Opinion No. 2010-MO-001 Submitted December 2, 2009 Filed January 11, 2010 DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Karen C. Ratigan, all of Columbia, for Petitioner. Deputy Chief Wanda H. Carter, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted the state's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the trial court's grant of Post-Conviction Relief (PCR) to Respondent, Ernest Berry Sibert. The PCR court held Sibert was entitled to a new Drug Court termination hearing and a new sentencing on the charge of distribution of crack, 3rd offense. We find the PCR court properly remanded for a new termination hearing and, accordingly, we dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted. DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED. TOAL, C.J., WALLER, PLEICONES, BEATTY and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur.