People Ex Rel. Yoder v. Hardy

Respondents-appellants, Stephen L. Hardy, administrator of Menard Psychiatric Center and Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General of Illinois, appeal from an order of the circuit court of Randolph County granting a writ of habeas corpus to Claude Rodney Yoder, a resident of the Menard Psychiatric Center, Illinois Department of Corrections. On appeal, respondents contend the trial court erred in finding that Yoder’s statutory good-time credits were unlawfully revoked and in ordering the Department of Corrections to restore such credits.

Claude Rodney Yoder, petitioner-appellee, was convicted of…