IN RE PERSONAL RESTRAINT OF ATWOOD

No. 24351-6-III.

146 P.3d 1232 (2006)

In the Matter of the PERSONAL RESTRAINT Petition OF Kenneth T. ATWOOD, Petitioner.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 3.

November 16, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Edelblute, Attorney at Law, Spokane, WA, for Petitioner.

John Scott Blonien, Criminal Justice Division, Donna H. Mullen, Attorney at Law, Attorney General Office, Olympia, WA, James Alan Von Sauer, Ferry County Prosecuting Attorney, Republic, WA, for Respondents.


SWEENEY, C.J.

¶ 1 The constitution requires the government to afford inmates at least a minimal level of due process before they are denied credit for good time or earned early release time. Here, the State made no showing of any procedures that would satisfy this modest constitutional requirement. We therefore grant Kenneth T. Atwood's personal restraint petition and remand his case to Ferry County for further proceedings...

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