Case Name: GOMEZ-CRUZ v. BROWN
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 2011-09-12
Citations: 289 Ga. 711
Docket Number: S11A1043
Parties: GOMEZ-CRUZ v. BROWN.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 289
Pages: 711–711

Head Matter:
S11A1043.
GOMEZ-CRUZ v. BROWN.
(715 SE2d 95)
Decided September 12, 2011.
Hernán, Taylor & Lee, Jerome Lee, for appellant.
Robert D. James, Jr., District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, E. Charles Reed, Jr., Duane D. Pritchett, for appellee.

Opinion:
THOMPSON, Justice.
Appellant was one of several individuals who filed a petition for a writ of mandamus against the Sheriff of DeKalb County. They alleged, inter alia, that they were being held in custody beyond the time permitted by statute or despite the posting of a bond because, in view of their immigration status, federal agents placed a detention hold upon them. The trial court dismissed the petition, finding that mandamus was not an appropriate remedy. This appeal followed.
Because appellant had been released on bond and was not in the sheriffs custody when the mandamus petition was filed, the trial court properly dismissed the petition. Coastal Service v. Jackson, 223 Ga. 238, 239 (154 SE2d 365) (1967) (mandamus will not compel "the undoing of acts already done or the correction of wrongs already perpetrated") (punctuation omitted).
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.