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Erroneously Released Texas Prisoner Has Right to Street Calendar Time
Loaded on May 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2003, page 15
by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Texas prisoner erroneously released on mandatory supervision has a right to calendar time spent on the streetbut not any potential good conduct timefollowing revocation.
Fernando Thompson, a Texas state prisoner, filed a petition for writ of habeas …
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