Legal Opinion
Luck v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 24, 1992No. 92-SP-665PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
On March 23, 1990, Charles Luck, a prisoner at Lorton Reformatory, filed this action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He named as defendants the Chairman of the District’s Parole Board and the Director of the District’s Department of Corrections (DOC). Luck alleged that, in calculating the amount of time which he must serve on his sentence, the defendants had wrongfully denied him “good time” credit for “street” time which he had served on parole, in violation of the Good Time Credits Act of 1986 (GTCA), D.C.Code § 24-431(a) (1989). He…
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3Cited by41 opinions
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