Lanham v. Missouri Department of Corrections

PHILLIP R. GARRISON, Judge.

Roger Lanham (“Plaintiff’) appeals the trial court’s granting of a motion for judg ment on the pleadings in favor of the Missouri Department of Corrections (“DOC”). For the reasons discussed infra we affirm.

Plaintiff, serving a seventeen-year sentence for second-degree murder and a concurrent five-year sentence for second-degree assault, filed a petition for declaratory judgment against DOC, 1 in the Circuit Court of Texas County, contending that it was illegally applying Section 558.011.4(1). 2 That section reads:

4. (1) A sentence of imprisonment for a term of…