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KOON v. STATE

No. 26295.

372 S.C. 531 (2007)

643 S.E.2d 680

Robert Holland KOON, Respondent, v. STATE of South Carolina, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided March 26, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General Molly R. Crum, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Deputy Chief Attorney Wanda H. Carter, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, Robert Holland Koon, of Bishopville, for Respondents.

Justice WALLER.

We granted the state's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the grant of Post-Conviction Relief (PCR) to Respondent, Robert Holland Koon. The PCR court found Koon was improperly sentenced to life imprisonment without parole (LWOP). We reverse.

FACTS

In May 1998, Koon was convicted of grand larceny and second degree burglary. Based upon Koon's 1986 guilty plea to four counts of second-degree burglary, he was sentenced as a recidivist...

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