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FREEMAN v. JOHNSON

No. 882SC392.

373 S.E.2d 565 (1988)

92 N.C. App. 109

William H. FREEMAN, Petitioner, v. Aaron J. JOHNSON, Secretary of the N.C. Department of Correction; John Patseavouras, Director of the Division of Prisons, Bruce B. Briggs, Chairman of the N.C. Parole Commission; Ernest R. Sutton, Superintendent of the Washington County Prison Unit, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

November 15, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc. by Richard E. Giroux, Raleigh, for petitioner-appellant.

Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen. Lucien Capone, III, Raleigh, for the State.

WELLS, Judge.

Petitioner assigns error to the trial court's holding that the Writ of Habeas Corpus was an inappropriate procedure for challenging the recission of his M.A.P.P. contract. The Writ of Habeas Corpus, described by this Court as "critically significant to American jurisprudence," In re Stevens, 28 N.C. App. 471, 221 S.E.2d 839 (1976), provides a method for the judiciary to...

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