Ex Parte Woods

Robert Earl Woods petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus; he asks us to direct the Montgomery Circuit Court to vacate its order, which converts Woods's petition for the writ of certiorari into a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and transfers the petition to the St. Clair Circuit Court. We grant Woods's mandamus petition.

While Robert Earl Woods was detained at the St. Clair Correctional Facility, he was accused of possessing contraband and of lying to a corrections officer. After hearings, a disciplinary board of the Alabama Department of Corrections ("the DOC") found Woods guilty of…