Court Opinion

ID: 9685515
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 14:45:02.308696+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:07.280686
License: Public Domain

AMUNDSON, Justice
(concurring specialty)-
Stumes elected to proceed through administrative channels in seeking a parole eligibility date. After receiving an unfavorable decision in this arena, he did not appeal. In Tibbetts v. State, 336 N.W.2d 658, 662 (S.D. 1983), Justice Wollman, in writing for this court on an inmate’s habeas corpus appeal, stated:
Because petitioner had available not only the remedies of the writs of prohibition and mandamus, those to be issued only when other relief is not available, of course, but also relief by way of administrative and ultimately judicial review of the disciplinary board’s actions, we conclude that the circuit court was without jurisdiction to issue a writ of habeas corpus under SDCL ch. 21-27. In view of this holding, we decline to consider the ex post facto issue.
In this case, I would also decline to consider the ex post facto issue and concur with the majority’s position that the trial court was without jurisdiction to hear this attempt at an end around.