Opinion ID: 1512563
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Heading: Weber's 1991 Sentence A Proper Enhancement

Text: A trial judge may impose a greater sentence in light of events subsequent to the first trial that may have thrown new light upon the defendant's `life, health, habits, conduct, and mental and moral propensities.' North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. at 723, 89 S.Ct. at 2079 (quoting Williams v. New York, 337 U.S. 241, 245, 69 S.Ct. 1079, 1082, 93 L.Ed. 1337 (1949)). There is no constitutional right to good time credit. See Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 557, 94 S.Ct. 2963, 2975, 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974) (stating that [i]t is true that the Constitution itself does not guarantee good time credit for satisfactory behavior while in prison); Spurlin v. Department of Corrections, Del.Supr., 230 A.2d 276, 277 (1967) (holding that [i]t is not necessarily true that earned good time prior to parole becomes a right vested in a prisoner which may not be taken from him). The loss of credit for good time served on the original sentence was within the discretion of the sentencing judge.