Sylvester Jones v. J. Martin Hadican

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• indicating that “truly exceptional circumstances” are needed to rebut the presumption
• indicating a narrow basis for refuting the presumption by showing a “bona fide intention to change [one’s] domicile to the place of [one’s] incarceration”
• “With respect to the domicile of prisoners, the traditional rule is that a prisoner does not acquire a new domicile when he is incarcerated in a different state; instead, he retains the domicile he had prior to his incarceration.” (citations omitted)
• prisoner’s citizenship unaffected by incarceration in different state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).