Legal Opinion
Alexander v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided December 15, 1981PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArthur H. Healey, J.
This matter involves a habeas corpus petition challenging the calculation of the plaintiff’s statutory good time credits pur snant to General Statutes § 18-7. The plaintiff has appealed from the judgment of the trial court, L. Dorsey, J., refusing to calculate the credits based on the aggregate of the plaintiff’s consecutive and concurrent sentences. The court, instead, ruled that the plaintiff, upon whom the consecutive sentence was imposed after the concurrent sentences, was not yet “held,” as required by § 18-7, under the consecutive sentence and therefore refused to aggregate the…
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