Opinion
2016-UP-171
04-06-2016
Nakia Jones, Appellant, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent. Appellate Case No. 2014-000602
Nakia Jones, pro se. Assistant Attorney General James Clayton Mitchell, III, of Columbia, for Respondent.
UNPUBLISHED OPINION
Submitted March 1, 2016.
Appeal From Richland County Robert E. Hood, Circuit Court Judge
Nakia Jones, pro se.
Assistant Attorney General James Clayton Mitchell, III, of Columbia, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM:
Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: S.C. Code Ann. § 17-27-20(B) (2014) ("[The Uniform PostConviction Procedure Act (the Act)] takes the place of all other common law, statutory or other remedies heretofore available for challenging the validity of the conviction or sentence."); Simpson v. State, 329 S.C. 43, 46, 495 S.E.2d 429, 431 (1998) ("[A] matter which is cognizable under the Act may not be raised by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus before the circuit or other lower courts."); Gibson v. State, 329 S.C. 37, 42, 495 S.E.2d 426, 428 (1998) ("[A] petitioner must allege sufficient facts to show why other remedies, such as [post-conviction relief], are unavailable or inadequate."); S.C. Code Ann. § 15-53-70 (2005) ("The court may refuse to render or enter a declaratory judgment or decree when such judgment or decree, if rendered or entered, would not terminate the uncertainty or controversy giving rise to the proceeding.").
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
SHORT, KONDUROS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.