Hinton v. South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole & Pardon Services

ANDERSON, J.:

Jack L. Hinton appeals from a declaratory judgment that his out-of-state conviction rendered him ineligible for parole by virtue of South Carolina’s subsequent violent offender statute. We reverse.

FACTS/PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Since June 17, 1992, Jack L. Hinton has been serving a thirty-year sentence pursuant to a South Carolina kidnapping conviction. Prior to the present conviction, Appellant completed a jail sentence in Ohio for a 1986 conviction for abduction.

Upon Appellant’s incarceration, the South Carolina Department of Corrections (“SCDC”) provided a projected parole…