STATE EX REL. SZYMANSKI v. GAMBLE

No. 00-2272.

244 Wis.2d 272 (2001)

2001 WI App 118

630 N.W.2d 570

STATE of Wisconsin EX REL. Walter G. SZYMANSKI, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Jane GAMBLE, Warden, Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution, Respondent-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided April 25, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the petitioner-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Dennis P. Coffey and Stacy C. Gerber Ward of Cook & Franke, S.C. of Milwaukee.

On behalf of the respondent-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of James E. Doyle, attorney general, and Karla Z. Keckhaver, assistant attorney general.

Before Brown, P.J., Nettesheim and Anderson, JJ.


¶ 1. NETTESHEIM, J.

In this habeas corpus action, Walter G. Szymanski, an inmate of the Wisconsin state prisons, argues that he is entitled to early release on parole because the parole commission has waived the minimum service of sentence requirements pursuant to WIS. STAT. § 304.06(1m)(a) (1999-2000).1 Like the trial court, we reject Szymanski's argument. We hold that § 304.06, read as a whole, provides that an inmate...

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