Opinion ID: 2268164
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Heading: Calculation and Recalculation

Text: On November 14, 1988, after the imposition of the sentences by Judge Martin in October, the Department of Correction calculated Hamilton's short-time release date as July 17, 1999. [5] In a prior proceeding in the Superior Court, the State asserted that [t]he record shows there is absolutely no dispute as to the length of Hamilton's sentence on the above-mentioned convictions, or as to the amount of good time credit available to Hamilton based on his 34 year sentence. In 1995, however, when Hamilton was a little more than three years away from his short-time release date, the Delaware Correctional Center Records Division revised the calculation of Hamilton's sentences to extend the total length of sentences that he was serving from thirty-four years to forty-three years. That recalculation in 1995 and another recalculation in 1996 extended Hamilton's short-time release date from July 17, 1999 to June 11, 2004. These recalculations were based on a new record keeper's legal conclusion that the concurrent sentences for Robbery in the First Degree and Conspiracy that had been imposed by Judge Martin on October 13, 1988 must be served consecutive to Hamilton's prior 1976 sentences. The result of this analysis was to add another nine years of cumulative imprisonment. That was added to Hamilton's sentence of thirty-four years imprisonment to arrive at a total of forty-three years of consecutive imprisonment. This recalculation, in effect, delayed the commencement of Judge Martin's October 1988 sentence from January 24, 1977, when Judge Martin had scheduled it to commence, to until after the sentences imposed by Judge Stiftel and Judge Longobardi in 1976 had been completed on December 4, 1984.