Legal Opinion
Higgins v. Briggs
Court of Appeals of Alaska
Decided June 24, 1994No. A-4732PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MANNHEIMER, Judge.
Scott A. Higgins appeals the superior court’s denial of his petition for writ of habe-as corpus. For several years, Higgins had been a prisoner in the custody of the Alaska Department of Corrections. As punishment for Higgins’s various violations of prison rules, the Department of Corrections had, at different times over the last five years, taken away portions of the good time credit Higgins accrued under AS 33.20.010. Higgins filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the superior court, claiming that the Department of Corrections had imposed excessive penalties…
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