Case ID: neb_199/html/0162-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Spencer, J. McCown, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Larry E. Smith, appellant, v. Joseph C. Vitek et al., appellees.
    256 N. W. 2d 866
    Filed August 3, 1977.
    No. 40977.
    Richard J. Schicker of Leigh, Koukal & Schicker, and David J. Cullan of Cullan & Cullan, for appellant.
    Paul L. Douglas, Attorney General, and Paul W. Snyder, for appellees.
    Heard before White, C. J., Spencer, Boslaugh, McCown, Brodkey, and White, JJ., and Kuns, Retired District Judge.
   Spencer, J.

Plaintiff, Larry E. Smith, appeals from the District Court’s denial of his request for a writ of mandamus to compel the State to discharge him from custody under the provisions of Laws 1975, L. B. 567. The sole issue presented is whether the provisions of L. B. 567 have retroactive application. We held in Johnson and Cunningham v. Exon, ante p. 154, 256 N. W. 2d 869 (1977), that they do if approved by the Board of Pardons. That case decides this issue and is controlling herein.

We reverse the judgment herein and remand the cause to the District Court for reconsideration in light of our holding in Johnson and Cunningham v. Exon, ante p. 154, 256 N. W. 2d 869 (1977).

Reversed and remanded.

McCown, J.,

concurring in result only.

I concur in the result only. See my concurring opinion in Johnson and Cunningham v. Exon, ante p. 154, 256 N. W. 2d 869.