In re Dion M.
Decision Date | 14 January 2009 |
Docket Number | 2009-UP-034 |
Parties | In the Interest of Dion M., a minor under the age of seventeen (17), Appellant. |
Court | South Carolina Court of Appeals |
THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.
Submitted January 2, 2009
Appeal From Edgefield County Richard W. Chewning, III, Family Court Judge
Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., all of Columbia; and Solicitor Donald V. Myers, of Lexington, for Respondent.
Dion M. appeals from the family court's order finding him delinquent of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, second-degree, and ordering him committed for an evaluation.
An order adjudicating a juvenile to be a delinquent is not immediately appealable. Instead, an appeal may only be taken after the imposition of final judgment at the dispositional hearing. Ex parte Murray, 261 S.C. at 256, 199 S.E.2d at 718.
Accordingly, we find this appeal is premature, and it is dismissed without prejudice to Dion M.'s right to appeal from the family court's dispositional hearing.
DISMISSED. [1]
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Notes:
[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
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