State v. Kennedy

Defendant was convicted of the charge of attempting to escape from the Oregon penitentiary. Prior to his trial and conviction on the above' charge, defendant’s previously accumulated “good tune” of about 400 days had been administratively cancelled by reason of the attempted escape. Defendant claimed that charging him with a crime for the same cause that eliminated his good time accumulation was double jeopardy. The trial court denied the plea and defendant claims this was error.

• It was not. The reduction in the term of a sentence is permitted when the inmate’s “record of conduct shows that…