Legal Opinion
State v. Dean
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
Decided May 8, 2019No. Appellate Case No. 2016-001004; Opinion No. 5648Published
1Opinion of the Court
LOCKEMY, C.J.:
**95The State appeals the trial court's order granting a new trial in Edward Lee Dean's conviction of first degree burglary, grand larceny, and malicious injury to real property. We dismiss the State's appeal.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
John Lester Hart, Jr. arrived at his Greenwood County home on August 13, 2012 to find the back door to his home and a storage room door had been forcibly opened. A door to a car in the yard had also been forced open. Hart immediately called the Greenwood County Police Department (the Department). When Hart went inside his home, "everything…
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