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Tuesday March 26, 2024

10:30 a.m.     (Time Limits: 10-10-5)  
2022-000661   John M. Burgess, Petitioner, v. Katherine C. Hunter, Respondent.

Stephen N. Garcia, of Garcia Law, LLC, of Greenville, for Petitioner. Andrew F. Lindemann, of Lindemann Law Firm, P.A., of Columbia, for Respondent.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Burgess v. Hunter, Op. No. 2022-UP-036 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb. 2, 2022).

11:30 a.m.     (Time Limits: 15-15-5)  
2022-000806   The State, Petitioner, v. Phillip Wayne Lowery, Respondent.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Ambree Michele Muller, both of Columbia; and Solicitor William Walter Wilkins, III, of Greenville, all for Petitioner. Chief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek and Appellate Defender Gary Johnson, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

We granted the State's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' reversal of the defendant's DUI conviction in State v. Lowery, 436 S.C. 349, 872 S.E.2d 197 (Ct. App. 2022). We will determine whether (1) the trial court erred in admitting Lowery's pre-Miranda, incriminating statements; and (2) the State failed to comply with the DUI video recording statute, S.C. Code section 56-5-2953.