Hastings v. State

Jeffrey Robert Hastings, an inmate in state custody, filed a pro se petition for writ of mandamus with this Court.1 Hastings’ petition is the twenty-seventh notice or extraordinary writ petition he has filed with this Court since 2000. For many years, Hastings has been unsuccessfully attempting to collaterally attack his conviction or sentence for escape in State v. Hastings, Case No. 74-179-CF (Seventh Judicial Circuit), and his convictions or sentences for manslaughter in State v. Hastings, Case No. 79-3126-CFA02 (Fifteenth Judicial Circuit). We now determine that, because Hastings has…