Mickey A. Brown v. Tennessee Department of Correction

OPINION

CANTRELL, Presiding Judge (M.S.).

A Tennessee prison inmate filed a Petition for a Declaratory Judgment, insisting that he was entitled to be immediately released because of the earlier expiration of a concurrent Florida sentence. The trial court dismissed the petition for failure to state a claim. We affirm.

I

Mickey Brown was serving a 30-year sentence in a Florida prison. In 1985, he was extradited to Tennessee to face charges related to an incident that had occurred in 1979 (the record does not reveal whether he was on parole at the time of the 1979 offense). Pursuant to a plea…