Mirault v. Commissioner of Correction

Opinion

DiPENTIMA, J.

The petitioner, David Mirault, appeals from the judgment of the habeas court dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On appeal, the petitioner claims that the court improperly (1) concluded that the respondent commissioner of correction correctly applied the petitioner’s credit for presentence confinement in calculating his discharge date, and that the court thereby violated the equal protection rights afforded him under the federal and state constitutions, and (2) ordered that the amount of presentence confinement credit earned on a fifteen year sentence be…