Title: Thomas v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 2007-MO-030
State: south-carolina
Issuer: south-carolina Supreme Court
Date: May 14, 2007

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 Supreme Court Rashaun Thomas, Petitioner v. State of South Carolina, Respondent Appeal From Richland County Alison Renee Lee, Circuit Court Judge Memorandum Opinion No. 2007-MO-030 Submitted April 18, 2007 Filed May 14, 2007 AFFIRMED Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for petitioner. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Chief Criminal Appeals &amp; Post-Conviction Relief Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Robert Brown, all of Columbia, for respondent. PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b)(1), SCACR, and the following authorities: Page v. State, 364 S.C. 632, 615 S.E.2d 740 (2005) (distinction between direct and collateral consequences of a plea turns on whether the result represents a definite, immediate, and largely automatic effect on the range of the defendant's punishment); Brown v. State, 306 S.C. 381, 412 S.E.2d 399 (1991) (the imposition of a sentence may have a number of collateral consequences, and a guilty plea is not rendered invalid if the defendant is not informed of the collateral consequences). AFFIRMED. TOAL, C.J., MOORE, WALLER, BURNETT and PLEICONES, JJ., concur.