Moats v. Scott

WILNER, Judge.

For the fourth time in less than three years, we are called upon to determine the proper method of calculating good conduct credits for an inmate sentenced to the Division of Correction. See Md. House of Correction v. Fields, 348 Md. 245, 703 A.2d 167 (1997), Beshears v. Wickes, 349 Md. 1, 706 A.2d 608 (1998), and Dept. of Corrections v. Henderson, 351 Md. 438, 718 A.2d 1150 (1998). In Fields and Wickes, we attempted directly to divine legislative intent from the text of the two relevant statutes. In Henderson and in this case, the problem arose principally from what we said and…