Baldwin v. Tennessee Board of Paroles

OPINION

BEN H. CANTRELL, P.J., M.S.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR. and WILLIAM B. CAIN, JJ., joined.

A prisoner in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction became eligible for parole after serving over twenty years of his sentence. The Parole Board conducted a hearing, and voted to deny him parole. They also decided to defer further parole consideration for another twenty years. The prisoner filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari, which the trial court denied. We reverse the deferral, because we find that the decision to defer further parole…