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STEWART v. SCHOFIELD

No. M2010-01808-SC-R11-CV.

368 S.W.3d 457 (2012)

Danny A. STEWART v. Derrick D. SCHOFIELD, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

May 25, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter, William E. Young , Solicitor General, and Pamela S. Lorch , Senior Counsel, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellants, Derrick D. Schofield,1 Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction; Candice Whisman, Director, Sentence Calculation/Sentence Information Department; Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole; William Parsons, Director, Parole Hearings; and Charles Traughber, Chairperson, Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole.

James O. Martin, III , for the Appellee, Danny A. Stewart.

OPINION

CORNELIA A. CLARK, C.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which JANICE M. HOLDER, GARY R. WADE, WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.

We accepted this appeal to clarify the procedures an inmate must follow to dispute the determination of parole eligibility when the inmate is serving consecutive determinate sentences imposed pursuant to the Criminal Sentencing Reform Act of 1989 ("1989 Act"). See Tenn.Code Ann. §...

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