Legal Opinion
Perez v. Commissioner of Correction
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 25, 2017No. SC19855PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcDONALD, J.
This case presents challenges to the constitutionality of substantive and procedural amendments to General Statutes (Rev. to 2013) § 54-125a, which governs parole eligibility for persons who received a definite sentence or aggregate sentence of more than two years, as applied to an offender who was sentenced before the amendments took effect. More specifically, we consider statutory amendments (1) eliminating earned risk reduction credit from the calculation of a violent offender's parole eligibility date, when such credit was not available at the time the offense was committed; Public Acts…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- California Department of Corrections v. MoralesSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Board of Pardons v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Lynce v. MathisSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- McGinnis v. RoysterSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Green v. Commissioner of CorrectionConnecticut Appellate Court · 2018
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- Holliday v. Commissioner of CorrectionConnecticut Appellate Court · 2018
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