State of West Virginia ex rel. Sonté C. Butler v. Misty Adams, Superintendent, Northern Regional Jail

FILED May 18, 2026 released at 3:00 p.m. C. CASEY FORBES, CLERK SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA No. 24-473 – State of West Virginia ex rel. Sonté C. Butler v. Misty Adams, Superintendent, Northern Regional Jail EWING, Justice, dissenting: After the petitioner filed his original jurisdiction petition for a writ of habeas corpus with this Court challenging his continued imprisonment due to the State’s failure to indict him within the time limitation imposed by West Virginia Code § 62-2-12 (the “two- term rule”), he was indicted and entered into a plea agreement to resolve those…