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JONES v. KELLER

No. 518PA09.

698 S.E.2d 49 (2010)

Alford JONES, Petitioner v. Alvin KELLER, Secretary of the Department of Correction, and Susan R. White, Administrator of New Hanover Correctional Center, Respondents.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 27, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Staples S. Hughes, Appellate Defender, and Katherine Jane Allen, Benjamin Dowling-Sendor, Daniel R. Pollitt, and Daniel K. Shatz, Assistant Appellate Defenders, for petitioner-appellee.

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Tiare B. Smiley and Robert C. Montgomery, Special Deputy Attorneys General, for respondent-appellants State of North Carolina and North Carolina Department of Correction.

Elliot Pishko Morgan, P.A., Winston Salem, by David Pishko, and Abrams & Abrams, P.A., Raleigh, by Margaret Abrams, for North Carolina Advocates for Justice, amicus curiae.

EDMUNDS, Justice.

In this case we determine whether petitioner Alford Jones is entitled to habeas corpus relief from incarceration on the grounds that he has accumulated various credits against his sentence. Because we conclude that he is lawfully incarcerated, we reverse the decision of the superior court.

The record indicates that Jones was charged with the 6 January 1975 murder of William B. Turner, Sr. Jones was convicted on 19 March 1975 in Superior Court...

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