Dontigney v. Commissioner of Correction

Opinion

The petitioner, Jeffrey J. Dontigney, appeals from the judgment of the habeas court, which denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus with prejudice and denied his petition for certification to appeal to this court. The petitioner claims that the court abused its discretion when it denied him certification to obtain review by this court. The petitioner argues that in the event that we conclude that the court did abuse its discretion, his petition for a writ of habeas corpus should not have been denied without an eviden-tiary hearing. We reverse the judgment of the habeas court in…