No. 23A821

William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina

Lower Court: South Carolina
Docketed: 2024-03-06
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Tags: appellate-review constitutional-violation indigent-representation mootness-doctrine parole-revocation post-conviction-relief
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Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether South Carolina's appellate courts failed to apply an exception to the mootness doctrine, where, as a result of an unconstitutional parole revocation hearing, Justice has a parole violation on his criminal record, where the blatantly illegal procedures employed by the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services are the standards by which they treat every unrepresented, indigent individual in South Carolina, where the remedy for future violations proposed by the state courts—filing a PCR application—was followed in this case yet failed to yield appellate review due to perceived mootness, and where a current South Carolina statute is unconstitutional based on longstanding United States Supreme Court precedent?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether South Carolina's appellate courts improperly applied the mootness doctrine in a case involving an unconstitutional parole revocation hearing that resulted in an improper parole violation record

Docket Entries

2024-03-07
Application (23A821) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until April 11, 2024.
2024-02-28
Application (23A821) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from March 12, 2024 to April 11, 2024, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Attorneys

William Justice
Taylor GilliamUniversity of South Carolina School of Law, Petitioner