State ex rel. Travis Jones, Relator v. The Honorable Eric Eighmy

Travis Jones seeks a writ prohibiting the circuit court from holding a probation revocation hearing. He contends the circuit court failed to make every reasonable effort to hold his probation revocation hearing prior to the expiration of his term of probation and has lost authority to do anything other than order his discharge from probation. This Court agrees. While the circuit court gave timely notice of an intent to hold a probation revocation hearing and scheduled the hearing for a date within the term of probation, it failed to make every reasonable effort to bring Mr. Jones before the…