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ESCALANTI v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

No. 1 CA-HC 92-0001.

174 Ariz. 526 (1993)

851 P.2d 151

Eldon Salvador ESCALANTI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Samuel Lewis, Director of Prisons for the State of Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Thomas Agnos, Maricopa County Sheriff, Arizona Prison — Tucson, Jim Thomas, Santa Rita Unit, Jeff Hood, Deputy Warden, and The State of Arizona, Respondents-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department B.

April 20, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant Woods, Atty. Gen. by Ronald M. Andersen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Phoenix, for respondents-appellees.

Thomas E. Higgins, Jr., Tucson, for plaintiff-appellant.

OPINION

JACOBSON, Judge.

This habeas corpus action requires us to determine whether petitioner Eldon Salvador Escalanti is parole eligible because "copper time" and "double time" credits he earned while in prison should apply to his minimum sentence.1

The facts are not in dispute. On May 27, 1977, Escalanti was sentenced to a prison term of twenty years to life after a plea of guilty to second degree murder under the sentencing...

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