Powell v. Missouri Department of Corrections

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Chief Judge.

Tracy Powell appeals from a judgment entered in the Circuit Court of Cole County denying Appellant’s pro se petition for declaratory judgment against the Missouri Department of Corrections and the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole. Appellant sought a declaration that Respondents had improperly applied the provisions of § 558.019.2 to require that he serve fifty percent of his current sentence before being eligible for parole. For the following reasons, we remand to the trial court for further proceedings.

Appellant is presently incarcerated at the Central…