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ANTWAIN SALES v. TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, ET AL.

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Oct 22, 2025

Head Comment: CORRECTION: The line on the first page was changed from Tenn. Sup. Ct. R. 10B Accelerated Interlocutory Appeal to Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: Antwain Sales, Whiteville, Tennessee, Pro Se.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter, and Adam Tune, Assistant Attorney General, for the appellees, the Tennessee Department of Correction, et al.

Judge(s): CLEMENT

Petitioner, an inmate incarcerated by the Tennessee Department of Correction, filed a petition for common law writ of certiorari seeking judicial review of disciplinary proceedings held at Morgan County Correctional Complex. Because the petition was not notarized and because a notarized petition was not filed within sixty days of the denial of his administrative appeal of that decision, the trial court determined that it did not have subject matter jurisdiction. For these reasons, the trial court dismissed the petition. The petitioner appeals. Finding no error with the trial court’s decision, we affirm.

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