Bruno v. State

We granted a writ of certiorari to review the denial of post-conviction relief (PCR) to petitioner Lawrence Bruno. We affirm.

FACTS

Bruno was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal, this Court affirmed. State v. Bruno, 322 S.C. 534, 473 S.E.2d 450 (1996). As related in the Court’s opinion on direct appeal, the basic facts of the crime are as follows:

[Bruno] and Mark Ross were drinking at a bar one evening in September 1993. The two left the bar in Ross’s car. Ross testified that as he was driving away from the bar, he *448tried to pass the car of James Murphy (“Victim”),…