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

Justice BEATTY:

In this case, the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services (the Department) appeals the circuit court’s reversal of the Administrative Law Court’s (ALC) order. In its order, the ALC dismissed Kamathene Cooper’s appeal from the denial of his request for parole on the ground that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to review the appeal. We granted the Court of Appeals’ motion for the appeal to be certified directly to this Court. We affirm as modified.

FACTUAL/PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On November 30, 1984, Cooper stabbed Rheupart Stewart with a knife and then…