Opinion
Appellate Case No. 2011-184506 Unpublished Opinion No. 2013-UP-194
05-15-2013
Hartford R. Best, Appellant, v. Samuel B. Glover, Director of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Board, Respondent.
Hartford Best, pro se. Tommy Evans, Jr., of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Board, of Columbia, for Respondent.
THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE
CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.
Appeal From Richland County
L. Casey Manning, Circuit Court Judge
APPEAL DISMISSED
Hartford Best, pro se.
Tommy Evans, Jr., of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Board, of Columbia, for Respondent. PER CURIAM : Because a procedural defect precludes meaningful review of this appeal, we dismiss pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authority: Rule 211(b), SCACR (requiring the content of a party's final brief to be identical to the initial brief, with the exception of including references to the record on appeal and correcting obvious typographical errors and misspellings contained in the initial brief). APPEAL DISMISSED.
We also find the appeal fails on the merits because Best did not demonstrate the lack of any other legal remedy. See Redmond v. Lexington Co. Sch. Dist., 314 S.C. 431, 437, 445 S.E.2d 441, 445 (1994) (providing to obtain a writ of mandamus, the applicant must show the co-existence of four elements, including a lack of any other legal remedy). Best's failure to seek post-conviction relief warranted dismissal of his petition for a writ of mandamus. See S.C. Code Ann. § 17-27-20(a)(5) (2003) (providing post-conviction relief is the exclusive remedy for challenging the parole board unlawfully revoked a person's parole).
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
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