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RODGER BROADWAY v. TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, ET AL.

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Oct 7, 2025

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: Rodger Broadway, Only, Tennessee, Pro Se.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter, and Matthew W. Kubicek, Assistant Attorney General, for the appellees, Jason Clendenion, Warden at Turney Center Industrial Complex; Frank Strada, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction; and the Tennessee Department of Correction.

Judge(s): SWINEY

This appeal concerns a disciplinary action taken against a prisoner. Rodger Broadway (“Petitioner”), an inmate at Turney Center Industrial Complex, was found guilty of Class B Defiance by the prison’s disciplinary board (“the Board”) for cursing at another inmate while in the gym. Petitioner, pro se, filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the Chancery Court for Hickman County (“the Trial Court”) against the Tennessee Department of Correction (“TDOC”) and multiple officials (“Respondents,” collectively). The Trial Court upheld the Board’s decision. Petitioner filed a motion to alter or amend, which the Trial Court denied as untimely even though Petitioner delivered the motion to the appropriate individual at his correctional facility within the time fixed for filing. We vacate the Trial Court’s judgment and remand for the Trial Court to consider Petitioner’s motion to alter or amend on its merits.

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