Hanif v. Alabama Department of Corrections

WINDOM, Presiding Judge.

Rehan Hanif appeals the circuit court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habe-as corpus in which he challenged the calculation of his sentence by the Alabama Department of Corrections (“DOC”). For the reasons that follow, this Court reverses the circuit court’s decision and remands this cause for further proceedings.

In 2012, Hanif was convicted of attempted solicitation of a child by computer, see §§ 13A-6-110 and 13A-4-2, Ala.Code 1975, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. On appeal, this Court affirmed Hanif s conviction and sentence by unpublished…