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McCARTHY v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

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217 Conn. 568 (1991)

JOHN J. MCCARTHY v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released February 26, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. D. McCallum, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, was Clarine Nardi Riddle, then attorney general, for the appellant-appellee (respondent).

John W. Watson, assistant public defender, for the appellee-appellant (petitioner).

PETERS, C. J., SHEA, CALLAHAN, COVELLO and BORDEN, Js.

CALLAHAN, J.

The petitioner, John J. McCarthy, an inmate of the state prison at Somers, brought a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the judicial district of Tolland. In his petition he alleged that he was illegally confined for two reasons pertinent to this appeal. He first claimed that the respondent's method of calculating good time1 credits on his consecutive sentences was incorrect and deprived him of good time to which he was...

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