Legal Opinion
Miller v. Walker
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided August 28, 1995No. 48S05-9503-CV-340, 48S05-9503-CV-340PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
How should the Department of Correction account for credit time awarded to prisoners who successfully complete educational programs during their stay behind bars?
The Department currently applies the credit to the term of years imposed by the sentencing court. Appellants in these cases assert that the credit time should instead be subtracted from the earliest possible release date, after taking into account the maximum anticipated allotment of credit time from other sentence-reducing mechanisms before applying the educational credit. The Court of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Miller v. WalkerIndiana Court of Appeals · 1994
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