RICHARDSON v. CLARKE

Nos. A-93-626, A-93-627.

512 N.W.2d 653 (1994)

2 Neb. App. 575

Melvin RICHARDSON, Appellee, v. Harold CLARKE, Director of Department of Correctional Services, and Department of Correctional Services, an Agency of the State of Nebraska, Appellants. Robert E. STERLING, Appellee, v. Harold CLARKE, Director of Department of Correctional Services, and Department of Correctional Services, an Agency of the State of Nebraska, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Nebraska.

February 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Stenberg, Atty. Gen., and Laurie Smith Camp, Lincoln, for appellants.

Dennis R. Keefe, Lancaster County Public Defender, and Richard L. Goos, Lincoln, for appellees.

SIEVERS, C.J., and IRWIN and MILLER-LERMAN, JJ.


MILLER-LERMAN, Judge.

These appeals cause us to examine the liberalization of the good time laws enacted by the Legislature in 1992. These two consolidated appeals question the method of awarding good time credits to prisoners with pending appeals when the good time provisions are revised by the Legislature during the pendency of their appeals. The trial court found in each case that the new good time law was applicable to each prisoner and ordered Harold Clarke,...

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