NIX v. WATTS

No. S08A0191.

664 S.E.2d 194 (2008)

NIX et al. v. WATTS.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied July 7, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Atty. Gen., Paula Khristian Smith, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jason Charles Fisher, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Appellants.

Jerry Watts, New Carey, for appellee.


HINES, Justice.

On May 17, 2006, Jerry Watts filed a petition for habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Fulton County, naming as the respondent to the petition Milton E. Nix, Jr., the Chairman of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. Watts asserted that the Superior Court of Fulton County was the proper court to hear the petition as Watts was then on parole, stemming from his April 2000 conviction in the Superior Court of Floyd County for theft by shoplifting, terroristic...

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