21SC52- Owens v. Carlson

The supreme court concludes that, under the specific circumstances present, the DOC is required to determine the parole eligibility date for the defendant’s one continuous sentence by employing a hybrid system that effectuates both of the calculation rules. Consequently, the DOC must apply the 50% rule to the sentence subject to that rule and the 75% rule to the two sentences subject to that rule. After doing so, the DOC must combine the resulting calculations to determine the parole eligibility date for the defendant’s single continuous sentence. This system at once honors the two different…