Wright v. Wainwright

SMITH, Acting Chief Judge.

Wright, a state prisoner, petitions for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that respondent Wainwright has taken his liberty, in the form of gain-time, without due process of law.

Wright escaped from a state road prison, was apprehended, and pleaded guilty to a charge of escape. The trial judge accepted his guilty plea, without informing him that *12he might lose his accumulated gain-time upon his return to prison, and sentenced him to serve one year and one day to run consecutively with his existing sentence. Wright alleges that, on returning to prison, officials told him…