Shepard v. State

The Supreme Court reversed the trial court’s determination as to the good time credit Defendant earned while in the work-release program of a community corrections facility and remanded the matter to the trial court with instructions to recalculate Defendant’s credit time.Defendant's direct placement in a community corrections facility was revoked for his failure to abide by the program’s terms. Thereafter, Defendant was ordered to serve the remainder of his eleven-year sentence in the Department of Correction. The trial court, in calculating Defendant’s earned good time credit, determined that because the community corrections director had deprived Defendant of more good time credit days than he was entitled to receive, Defendant was not entitled to any good time credit for his time served in the work-release program. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the community corrections director lacked the authority to deprive Defendant of good time credit earned. View "Shepard v. State" on Justia Law