Hicks v. Scott

Sears, Justice.

This Court granted petitioner William Shane Hicks’s application for a certificate of probable cause to appeal the habeas court’s order denying the filing of Hicks’s petition for habeas corpus relief. Because the habeas court incorrectly concluded that it was without jurisdiction to decide the petition and that the petition did not assert valid grounds for habeas relief, we reverse and remand.

Petitioner is presently incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta serving a 63-month sentence for bank robbery, imposed in May 1996 by the United States District Court.…