SCOV Law

Can we have a decision about calculations without using this meme? Possibly. But why?  By Andy Delaney Friday was my birthday. SCOV issued one opinion about good-time credit and that which the Legislature giveth, the Legislature so too hath taken away (or something like that). Some birthday present, I guess.  Light blasphemy aside, petitioner is serving a 20-to-life sentence for a 2018 second-degree murder conviction. Effective New Years Day 2021, Vermont revived its earned-time program, allowing eligible incarcerated people to reduce their sentences by seven days each month if they avoided major disciplinary violations and release-condition violations. And from January through April 2021, petitioner got so-called good-time credit.  But the Legislature quickly changed course. Effective April 26, 2021, it excluded people who were serving sentences on January 1, 2021 for a list of serious offenses, including murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, certain child-sex offenses, and ...