Kendrick v. McNeil

By petition for writ of certiorari, Kenneth James Kendrick seeks review of an order of the circuit court which treated his habeas corpus petition as a mandamus petition and denied it on its merits. We have jurisdiction in accordance with Sheley v. Florida Parole Commission, 720 So.2d 216 (Fla.1998). For the reasons set forth below, we grant the petition in part and deny it in part.

Kendrick and another inmate were involved in an altercation. Kendrick received a disciplinary sanction for fighting and shortly thereafter the institutional classification team recommended that he be placed on close…