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STATE EX REL. PECK v. PHELPS

No. 65995.

385 So.2d 212 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Jerry Lynn PECK v. C. Paul PHELPS, Secretary, Department of Corrections.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 5, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Williams, Jr., Metairie, for plaintiff-relator.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, J. Marvin Montgomery, Asst. Attys. Gen., Judy F. Pierce, Staff Atty., Paul Carmouche, Dist. Atty., for defendant-respondent.

WATSON, Justice.

Relator Jerry Lynn Peck was paroled from Angola on May 21, 1974. On March 8, 1976, he was arrested on charges of forgery and parole violation and placed in the Caddo Parish Jail. Peck escaped, but was apprehended, convicted of forgery and escape and returned to Angola with his parole revoked. A writ was granted to consider the argument that the Department of Corrections (DOC) improperly cancelled all the good time Peck had earned prior to his release...

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