Boria v. Commissioner of Correction

The record in the present case reflects that the petitioner filed the underlying petition for a writ of habeas corpus, his third, on August 8, 2016, and that, when the petition was received by the Superior Court, it was assigned a docket number. 1 In his filing, the petitioner claimed, inter alia, that his confinement was illegal because (1) his guilty plea to the underlying criminal offense was not voluntary, and (2) the 2013 and 2015 amendments to the earned risk reduction credit statute, General Statutes § 18-98e, which bore on his parole eligibility and were enacted subsequent to his…