Carroll v. Hobbs

hln 1997, judgment was entered reflecting that appellant Conray Carroll had entered a pléa of guilty to rape for which he was sentenced as a habitual offender to 720 months’ imprisonment. In 2013, appellant filed in the Jefferson County Circuit Court a pro se -petition for declaratory .judgment and for writ of mandamus against the Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction (“ADC”), in whose custody appellant was being held. The circuit court dismissed the petition, and appellant brings this appeal from the order. 1

We review the action of the circuit court de novo, and we will uphold…