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CARPENTER v. SCDC

Opinion No. 5762.

431 S.C. 512 (2020)

848 S.E.2d 346

Charles Eugene CARPENTER, Appellant, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS and the State of South Carolina, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Filed August 19, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Desa Ballard and Harvey M. Watson, III , both of Ballard & Watson, Attorneys at Law, of West Columbia, for Appellant.

Damon Christian Wlodarczyk , of Riley Pope & Laney, LLC, of Columbia, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Corrections.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Megan Harrigan Jameson , both of Columbia, for Respondent the State.

Charles Carpenter alleges he is being unlawfully held in prison because his sentences for conspiracy in trafficking cocaine and conspiracy in trafficking marijuana have expired. He raised these allegations in two separate civil actions: a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a declaratory judgment action. After a bench trial, the circuit...

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