State v. Malone

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal by the Alabama Department of Corrections from the order of the circuit court granting a default judgment against the State for its failure to timely amend its answer in response to an inmate’s petition for writ of habeas corpus within the time set by the court. The relevant history of this case is as follows:

June 2, 199J^: A petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed by Michael Malone, an inmate in the Alabama prison system. Malone complained that he was not receiving retroactive incentive good time credit on his 1990 sentence of 15 years for…