White v. Bruce

Brazil, C.J.:

Louis E. Bruce, the Warden of the Ellsworth Correctional Facility (ECF), appeals the district court’s decision to grant habeas corpus relief to petitioner Melvin White. The court held that White should receive credit against his postrelease supervision for time he spent incarcerated on another charge prior to the Kansas Parole’s Board’s (KPB) decision to revoke his post-release supervision. The court stayed execution of its judgment pending the outcome of this appeal. We reverse.

On January 7, 1994, White finished serving a 42-month guidelines sentence and was released to begin…