# Colvin v. Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · March 3, 1995 · 659 So. 2d 1025

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7690495

## Case

- **Full name:** Ronnie T. Colvin v. Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles.
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
- **Decided:** March 3, 1995
- **Citations:** 659 So. 2d 1025; 1995 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 83; 1995 WL 157008
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Patterson
- **Judges:** Patterson, Taylor, McMillan, Cobb, Long
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

PATTERSON, Judge.
The appellant, Ronnie T. Colvin, appeals from the circuit court’s denial of his petition for a writ of certiorari. In his petition, Col-vin challenged two of the four denials of parole by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles.
This petition was originally filed in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, but that court construed it as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and transferred it to the Circuit Court of Elmore County, which would have had jurisdiction over such a petition. However, the Elmore Circuit Court could not properly entertain Colvin’s petition. “Review of an action of the Board is not by a habeas corpus proceeding.... [CJertiorari is the appropriate remedy for review of such actions.” Sellers v. State, 586 So.2d 994, 994-95 (Ala.Cr.App.1991). Hill’s petition was erroneously treated as a petition for writ of habeas corpus. It should have been entertained by the Montgomery Circuit Court. Accordingly, the Elmore Circuit Court’s judgment denying Hill’s petition is reversed and that court is ordered to transfer Hill’s *1026 petition back to the Montgomery Circuit Court.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
TAYLOR, P.J., and McMILLAN and COBB, JJ., concur.
LONG, J., recuses himself.

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