State Ex Rel. Hake v. Burke

The petitioner argues his two sentences for the purpose of determining good time or the amount of the diminution of sentence under sec. 53.11 (3), Stats., should be regarded as one continuous sentence and if so treated as a single fifteen-year maximum sentence with the loss of one month and one day good time, his conditional release date would have been March 9, 1963. The respondent contends the seven-year and eight-year terms are to be treated as separate terms and the petitioner’s tentative conditional release date is June 9, 1964, and if the seven-year and eight-year terms are treated as a…