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Jerald D. Gaskins v. State

Supreme Court of South Carolina
May 6, 2026

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.

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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.

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