Chandler v. Mahoney

OPINION AND ORDER

¶1 The Petitioner, Jamie S. Chandler, petitioned for a writ of habeus corpus pursuant to §§ 46-22-101 through -307, MCA. Chandler contends that he is being held illegally in violation of § 46-18-401(5), MCA (1993), which required that his sentence be merged at the time of his parole on April 10,1998.

BACKGROUND

¶2 Chandler was originally sentenced to concurrent terms of five and ten years for seven counts of felony theft in May 1994. Chandler escaped from prison on October 14,1994, and was sentenced to a consecutive term of two years for felony escape on October 10,1995. On…