State ex rel. Hunley v. Wainwright
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The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus against Warden Lyneal Wainwright, holding that Appellant was not entitled to immediate release.
Between 1992 and 2007 Appellant was paroled four times. In 2008, Appellant was convicted of several offenses and sentenced. In his petition for writ of habeas corpus Appellant alleged that the 2008 sentencing court did not order him to serve his firearm-specification sentences consecutively to his two prior robbery sentences and that he should have been released on December 13, 2019. The court of appeals dismissed the petition. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that because Appellant was not complete his lawfully imposed sentences until 2025 he was not entitled to immediate release.
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