GILBERTSON, Chief Justice.
[¶ 1.] Petitioner Fred A. Bostick filed a habeas corpus petition alleging ineffective assistance of counsel at his original trial in 1997. After a certificate of probable cause had been issued but before the habeas hearing was held, the Petitioner was paroled from the state penitentiary. The circuit court held Bostick's parole mooted his right to seek habeas relief in the courts of South Dakota. Bostick appealed contending the conditions...
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