DeGidio v. State

Appeal from a dismissal on procedural grounds of a postconviction application.

Petitioner filed a pro se petition for postconviction relief alleging, pertinent to this appeal, that the Youth Conservation Commission (YCC), to whose custody he was committed at age 20 upon his conviction for a violation of our Uniform Narcotic Drug Act, violated his statutory and due process rights when it failed to discharge him upon his reaching his twenty-fifth birthday. After consideration of the record submitted in support and opposition to the petition, the postconviction court, withoút an evidentiary…