Brodie v. State

Parks, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court denying a writ of habeas corpus to the petitioner, Terry J. Brodie.

Petitioner alleges that he is being restrained of his liberty within the meaning of K.S.A. 60-1501 in that the Secretary of Corrections has refused to allow him credit on his Kansas sentence for the time he spent in confinement in the state of California. Petitioner accrued the time in the foreign jail following his escape from the Kansas State Penitentiary (KSP) at Lansing, Kansas, where he is presently confined.

Petitioner plead guilty to second degree murder in…