Sizemore v. Pickett

CARLTON, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. On November 16, 2009, Richard P. Sizemore (Richard) filed a “Motion for Writ of Habeas Corpus & for Other Relief’ in the Jackson County Chancery Court, seeking to have his fifteen-year-old son, John Blake Sizemore (Blake), removed from the home of Francis Clifton Pickett (Cliff), Blake’s older half brother, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and returned to him in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. In Richard’s petition for habeas corpus, he asserted entitlement to custody as the natural parent and provided while his previous judgment of divorce awarded his wife, Blake’s…