State v. Gray

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Noel Gray, Appellant.

Appeal From Aiken County
 Jackson V. Gregory, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-040
Submitted January 2, 2008 Filed January 11, 2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Eleanor Duffy Cleary, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense,  Division of Appellate Defense, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, of Columbia; Solicitor Barbara R. Morgan, Second Judicial Circuit, of Aiken, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Gray appeals his life sentence without parole for two counts of second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.  On appeal Gray alleges the trial judge erred by allowing a prior, out-of-state charge for aggravated child molestation to be classified as a most serious offense in South Carolina.  After a thorough review of the record, counsel's brief, and Gray's pro se 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] Gray's appeal and grant counsel's motion to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

ANDERSON, SHORT AND WILLIAMS, JJ., CONCUR

[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.