STEELE v. BENJAMIN

No. 3892.

362 S.C. 66 (2004)

606 S.E.2d 499

Ernest STEELE, Appellant, v. Stephen BENJAMIN, Director of Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided November 22, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest Steele, of Bennettsville, pro se, for Appellant.

John Benjamin Aplin, and Tommy Evans, Jr., South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon, of Columbia, for Respondent.


BEATTY, J.:

Ernest Steele appeals the circuit court's denial of his petition for a writ of mandamus against Stephen Benjamin, Director of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services (the Department). We affirm.1

FACTS

Steele was convicted of murder in 1967 and sentenced to life imprisonment. At the time of his conviction, the law provided that...

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