Joiner v. Sinclair

ROBERTS, Justice.

This cause is before the court on the return of the respondent, as custodian of the Florida state prison, to a writ of habeas corpus previously issued by this court at the behest of the petitioner. The point of law dispositive of the question whether petitioner is unlawfully restrained of his liberty may be stated as follows:

When a prisoner is incarcerated under two or more consecutive sentences and escapes, does he forfeit the entire gain time accrued at the time he escaped, including that earned by serving the first sentence, even though with credit for gain time the first…