SER Jim Rubenstein, Commissioner, W. Va. Div. of Corrections v. Hon. Louis H. Bloom, Judge

No 14-1043 - State ex rel. Rubenstein v. Bloom FILED March 17, 2015 RORY L. PERRY II, CLERK SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA WORKMAN, C. J., dissenting: I dissent to the majority’s use of an otherwise moot case to sanction an incorrect interpretation of the circuit court’s statutory authority to grant work release to defendants who are convicted felons. In so doing, the majority has exposed the West Virginia Division of Corrections (hereinafter “DOC”) to its statutory responsibility for felony defendants with whose care and custody it is statutorily charged, but stripped it of the…