State ex rel. King v. Watson
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The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus against Warden Tom Watson of the North Central Correctional Institution, holding that Appellant was not entitled to relief.
Appellant was convicted on sixty-one counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor and sentenced to thirty-six and one-half years in prison. Appellant later filed this habeas petition alleging that he was being unlawfully imprisoned. The court of appeals granted the warden's motion to dismiss. The Supreme Court affirmed and denied Appellant's motion for judicial notice, holding that Appellant was not entitled to a writ of habeas corpus because he did not show that his maximum prison sentence had expired or that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to later resentence him.
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