Gochenour v. Bolin

This is an action brought by Elmer R. Goehenour, an inmate of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, in the District Court for Lancaster County for a declaratory judgment construing the statutes of this state providing for “good time” and to determine whether the Department of Correctional Services (hereinafter DCS) properly computed Gochenour’s discharge date. The petition alleged that the DCS unlawfully interrupted his service of an indeterminate sentence for the purpose of having him serve a consecutive sentence subsequently imposed before completing the indeterminate sentence. The…