Kim Lynn Mason v. Jim Farris, Warden
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Whether due process demands that corrective judicial process in the nature of state writ of habeas corpus be available to expunge a void judgment for lack of jurisdiction when all other avenues of judicial relief are closed to a state prisoner
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether due process demands that ‘corrective judicial process in the nature of state writ of habeas corpus be available to expunge a void judgment for lack of jurisdiction when all other avenues of judicial relief are closed to a state prisoner. Whether the 1866 territorial boundaries of the Cherokee Nation within the former Indian Territory of eastern Oklahoma constitute an “Indian reservation” in 2007 in the City of Vinita, County of Craig under 18 U.S.C. § 1151(a). Whether the Craig County District Court was of competent jurisdiction to impose judgment, if not is judgment void and can it be vacated on writ of habeas corpus under Oklahoma Habeas Corpus Act. ; Whether the “Mailbox Rule for appeals filed by pro se incarcerated prisoners applied to inmate’s pro se civil action against prison officials, and thus appeal, which: was turned over to correctional officials within thirty (30) days statute of limitations was timely filed; ,Petitioner an inmate did not have control over submission of his petition to the Oklahoma ‘Court of Criminal Appeals and could never be sure that his petition would ultimately get stamped filed before the running of the statute of limitations.