Dean Thompson v. State

While confined within the Alabama Prison System at Staton Correctional Center in Elmore County, James J. Terry filed on March 14, 1984, in the Circuit Court of Elmore County a petition for writ of habeas corpus in which he claimed that he was then being held illegally at Staton. He based his claim on an allegation that he was being held on an illegally imposed sentence of November 11, 1983, by the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama, after a judgment of conviction had been rendered against him for a felony at the Conclusion of a trial commencing on June 7, 1983. It was further alleged in the petition that on October 7, 1982, while petitioner was in prison in Staton Correctional Center he filed an "INMATES NOTICE OF PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT AND REQUEST FOR DISPOSITION OF INDICTMENTS, INFORMATION OR COMPLAINTS," in which he requested "that a final Disposition be made of the following indictments, information or complaints now pending against me : Robbery 1st degree," and that on October 21, 1982, the Director of Inmate Records Administration of the Department of Corrections, upon receipt of the "Inmates Notice," wrote the Mobile County District Attorney, enclosing a copy of the "Inmates Notice" and stating in the letter the following: