Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes Docket Number 2026-MO-005 See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. OPINION ORIGINAL PDF To access the original judgment, please Sign In or Subscribe. Jerald D. Gaskins v. State 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 Jerald D. Gaskins, Jr., Respondent, v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner. Appellate Case No. 2025-001072 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS Appeal from Greenville County Alex Kinlaw Jr., Post-Conviction Relief Judge Memorandum Opinion No. 2026-MO-005 Heard April 22, 2026 - Filed May 6, 2026 DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, all of Columbia, for Petitioner. Clarence Rauch Wise, of Greenwood, for Respondent. 1 PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Gaskins v. State, Op. No. 2025-UP-046 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb. 5, 2025). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted. DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED. KITTREDGE, C.J., FEW, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justices Michael Gary Nettles and Debra Ruilova McCaslin, concur. 2