Legal Opinion
Browning v. Michigan Department of Corrections
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided July 7, 1971No. 26 January Term 1971, Docket No. 52,726-1/2PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtT. M. Kavanagh, C. J.
This is a prison “dead time” case here in the form of habeas corpus to inquire into petitioner’s detention in the State Prison of Southern Michigan at Jackson. The term “dead time” as a convenient shorthand desription of a period, created by statute,1 during which the running of a parole violator’s sentence is suspended. The term will be more precisely defined herein.2
Petitioner Robert D. Browning was sentenced on August 22,1958, in Recorder’s Court of Detroit to a two to ten year prison term for the crime of larceny from the person.3
On December 14, 1960, petitioner Browning was paroled to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Fox v. Employment Security CommissionMichigan Supreme Court · 1967
- In Re CareyMichigan Supreme Court · 1964
- In re LamphereMichigan Supreme Court · 1886
- People v. BuckleyMichigan Supreme Court · 1942
- In Re Slum Clearance Between Hastings, De Quindre, Mullett Streets and Gratiot AvenueMichigan Supreme Court · 1952
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3Cited by28 opinions
- People v. WakefordMichigan Supreme Court · 1983
- People v. IdziakMichigan Supreme Court · 2009
- Alexander v. City of DetroitMichigan Supreme Court · 1974
- People v. TaylorMichigan Supreme Court · 1972
- People v. BabcockMichigan Court of Appeals · 2001
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