Goetzendanner v. Superintendent

Darrien Goetzendanner was at liberty on parole from concurrent, twenty-year reformatory sentences2 when he committed additional offenses for which he was arrested and *534held in lieu of bail; he was convicted of these new offenses and intervening sentences were imposed.3 The question raised by this appeal is whether the Department of Correction (department) has improperly required that Goetzendanner first complete the balance of his reformatory sentences before he serves his intervening sentences.

Goetzendanner claims that applicable law dictates that he first complete his intervening sentences…