Legal Opinion
Offet v. Solem
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 13, 1987No. 86-5209PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Gary Offet appeals pro se from a decision of the District Court dismissing his complaint. We affirm.
Offet is an inmate at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. He was convicted in November 1979 of first degree robbery and obstruction of justice, and was sentenced to consecutive terms of nine and three years, respectively. At that time, S.D. Codified Laws Ann. § 24-5-1 (1979) provided that, subject to the provisions of S.D. Codified Laws Ann. §§ 24-2-17 and 24-2-18 (1979), every convict sentenced for less than a life term was entitled to a deduction from his sentence of a…
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