Hundley v. Hobbs (Majority, with Dissenting)
Annotate this CaseAppellant was convicted of capital-felony murder in Arkansas and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Appellant filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Jefferson County Circuit Court, arguing that, because he was seventeen years old at the time of the crime, his sentence violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. At the time he filed his petition, Appellant was incarcerated in a correctional facility in New Jersey. Appellant argued that because he was incarcerated under the terms of the Interstate Corrections Compact (ICC), he remained in the custody of the Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC), which is headquartered in Jefferson County, for the purpose of the state’s habeas corpus statutes. The circuit court dismissed the petition, concluding that it lacked jurisdiction to issue a writ and make it returnable in Jefferson County. The Supreme Court reversed, holding (1) the terms of the ICC supplement the state’s ordinary habeas jurisdictional analysis; and (2) Jefferson County had jurisdiction over Appellant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. Remanded.
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