Rhoden v. State Department of Correction

OPINION

CANTRELL, Judge.

An inmate in the correction department sought a declaratory judgment concerning his sentence credits. The Chancery Court of Davidson County dismissed the petition (1) because the proper avenue for relief was a writ of certiorari to challenge the disciplinary action that caused the loss of his sentence credits, and (2) because the failure to give him sentence credits while he was under a California detainer did not violate his equal protection rights. We affirm. 1

I

Lawtis Donald Rhoden received a twenty year sentence for rape in 1985. In August of 1995, while Mr. Rhoden…