Blair v. Tennessee Board of Probation & Parole

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• holding that the petitioner must “file a properly verified petition within sixty days from the denial of his administrative appeal”
• holding that “[n]either the trial court nor the appellate court acquires jurisdiction over the petition unless it is verified” as required by Tenn. Code Ann. § 27-8-106
• Holding that the trial court lacked authority to grant a motion to amend a petition for writ of certiorari to comply with the verification requirement because the statutory period for filing had expired
• “Neither the trial court nor the appellate court acquires jurisdiction over the petition unless it is verified[.]”
• “Failure to file the petition within this time limit results in the challenged judgment becoming final, which deprives a reviewing court of jurisdiction over the matter.”

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