STOUFFER v. PEARSON

No. 1, September Term, 2005.

887 A.2d 623 (2005)

390 Md. 36

J. Michael STOUFFER, Warden v. James L. PEARSON.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 8, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl A. Pothier, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for petitioner/cross-respondent.

Joseph B. Tetrault (Stephen Z. Meehan, Pauline K. White, Tamal A. Banton, Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland, Inc., Chestertown, on brief), for respondent/cross-petitioner.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.


GREENE, J.

Inmate, James L. Pearson, respondent, filed a petition for habeas corpus relief in the Circuit Court for Washington County.1 After a hearing in the Circuit Court (Wright, J. presiding) the court found that Mr. Pearson was entitled to an immediate release and ordered him to be released from the custody of the Division of Corrections (DOC)2 after recalculation of diminution of confinement credits and...

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