JONES v. THOMAS

No. 88-420.

491 U.S. 376 (1989)

JONES, SUPERINTENDENT, MISSOURI TRAINING CENTER FOR MEN AT MOBERLY v. THOMAS

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 19, 1989


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen D. Hawke, Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were William L. Webster, Attorney General, and John M. Morris III, Assistant Attorney General.

Springfield Baldwin, by appointment of the Court, 489 U.S. 1006, argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.*


JUSTICE KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court.

After it became apparent that two consecutive sentences had been imposed where state law permitted but one, a Missouri court vacated the shorter of the two and credited the time already served against the remaining sentence. At the time the court entered its order, the prisoner had completed serving the shorter sentence. The question presented is whether the longer sentence...

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