Sierra Summerall v. Department of Correction

This appeal arises from a prisoner disciplinary proceeding at the West Tennessee State Penitentiary. After a disciplinary board punished him for possession of marijuana, the prisoner filed a petition for common-law writ of certiorari in the Chancery Court for Davidson County asserting that the Department of Correction had deprived him of due process by substantially departing from its Uniform Disciplinary Policies. The trial court dismissed the petition because it was not timely filed. The prisoner has appealed. We affirm the trial court.