McCarthy v. Commissioner of Correction

The petitioner, John J. McCarthy, an inmate of the state prison at Somers, brought a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the judicial district of Tolland. In his petition he alleged that he was illegally confined for two reasons pertinent to this appeal. He first claimed that the respondent’s method of calculating good time1 credits on his consecutive sentences was incorrect and deprived him of good time to which he was statutorily entitled, and also deprived him of the equal protection of the law guaranteed to him by the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution and article…