Ex Parte Franks

OPINION

in which KELLER, P.J., MEYERS, WOMACK, KEASLER, HOLCOMB and COCHRAN, J.J., joined.

Serving a life sentence on an aggravated robbery conviction, applicant complains in this habeas corpus proceeding that the government refuses to release him to mandatory supervision. We hold that a life-sentenced inmate is not eligible for release to mandatory supervision.

When applicant committed his crime in 1981, the law governing eligibility for release to mandatory supervision provided that an inmate not under a sentence of death “shall be released to mandatory supervision” when the “calendar time he…