Taylor v. Dugger

ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

Petitioner seeks a certificate of discharge on an attempted escape sentence, which, he has alleged, is expired. Because the petition is facially sufficient, and respondent has not refuted the underlying premise on which the petition is based, we grant the relief sought by the petition insofar as the respondent is directed to issue a certificate of discharge on the attempted escape sentence.

The petition alleges that in November of 1984, while incarcerated under a life sentence, petitioner was sentenced to five and a half years for attempted escape. The escape…