State ex rel. Eames v. Baldwin

This is an appeal in a mandamus action with a convoluted history. Plaintiff has filed three mandamus petitions, each seeking credit towards his term of imprisonment for time that he spent on electronic monitoring and work release in 1991. See ORS 137.320. In 1993, plaintiff filed his first mandamus action, and the trial court issued a writ. The action was dismissed with prejudice in June.1 We dismissed plaintiffs appeal as untimely, and the Supreme Court denied review.

In September 1993, plaintiff filed this second mandamus proceeding. Across a form that plaintiff had supplied entitled “Order…