With the Georgia Supreme Court’s decision not to hear his appeal, a man who spent 17 months in prison after he was due to be released is out of options for seeking recompense for the time he served. 

It’s the “end of the line” said the lawyer for Kevin Rose, whose negligence complaint against the Georgia Department of Corrections was thrown out by a Fulton County judge who decided it was actually a false imprisonment action and thus barred by sovereign immunity.