Otts v. State

MADDOX, Justice.

These petitions for writs of certiorari were granted and consolidated because all three involve the same issue of first impression: whether a person sentenced to more than ten years under the Alabama Split Sentence Act, Ala. Code 1975, § 15-18-8, is entitled to incentive “good time” credit under the Alabama Correctional Incentive Time Act, §§ 14-9-40 through -44 (hereinafter the “ACIT Act”), if his period of confinement is less than ten years. All three petitioners filed habeas corpus petitions in order to have the ACIT Act applied to them; in each case, the trial court denied…