State Ex Rel. Linehan v. Wood

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

We granted the state’s petition for review in order to decide whether the Court of Appeals erred in awarding a prisoner, Dennis Darol Linehan, credit against his Minnesota sentence for time spent in prison in Michigan for a Michigan offense that Linehan committed after escaping from prison in Minnesota. We reverse the Court of Appeals and reinstate the decision of the trial court.

Linehan pleaded guilty in 1965 to kidnapping. The charge was based on Linehan’s taking a 14-year-old girl from her home for the purpose of raping her. During the course of that crime, Linehan…