EX PARTE OTTS

88-891, 88-898 and 88-1076.

552 So.2d 878 (1989)

Ex parte Michael Hugh OTTS. (Re Michael Hugh Otts v. State). Ex parte Sedrick THOMAS. (Re Sedrick Thomas v. State). Ex parte Joe Nathan CUNNINGHAM. (Re Joe Nathan Cunningham v. State).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 13, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Moffatt, Athens, for petitioners.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Yvonne A. Henderson and P. David Bjurberg, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent in 88-898 and 88-891.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Gilda B. Williams, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent in 88-1076.


MADDOX, Justice.

These petitions for writs of certiorari were granted and consolidated because all three involve the same issue of first impression: whether a person sentenced to more than ten years under the Alabama Split Sentence Act, Ala.Code 1975, § 15-18-8, is entitled to incentive "good time" credit under the Alabama Correctional Incentive Time Act, §§ 14-9-40 through -44 (hereinafter the "ACIT Act"), if his period of confinement is less than...

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