Lawrence v. Arizona Department of Corrections

OPINION

FERNANDEZ, Judge.

Appellant, serving a sentence of 15 years to life for second-degree murder, filed an action challenging appellees’ failure to apply the 180-day mandatory release date to his sentence, their alleged forfeiture of good time credits which he had earned, and the failure to subtract earned release credits from the maximum expiration date of his sentence. The lower court granted appellees’ motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim and this appeal followed.

Appellant’s first claim stems from former A.R.S. § 31-411(B), which provided in part:

Every prisoner shall be…