Court Opinion

ID: 9637003
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 14:52:31.090787+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:52.063625
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KELLER, P.J.,
concurring and dissenting
in which HERVEY, J., joined.
I concur in the Court’s opinion regarding the issue of applicant’s eligibility for mandatory supervision, and I agree that applicant is entitled to some “street time” credit on his sentence, but, for the reasons given in my dissent in Ex parte Spann,11 disagree as to the amount of time credit. This opinion is just the first indication of the enormous impact of the Court’s erroneous interpretation of the time credit statute in Spann. The Spann opinion will affect every mandatory-supervision eligible prisoner who is entitled to street time credit. We are just now seeing the tip of the iceberg, as more and more prisoners will receive far more time credit than the Legislature intended to give them.
In this case, for example, applicant receives over two years more time credit than he should. Instead of awarding applicant the 911 days that the Legislature intended to give him, the Court, under Spann, awards him the full 1707 days spent on the street — a difference of 796 days.2
I respectfully dissent to the amount of time awarded.

. 132 S.W.3d at 396-397(Keller, P.J., dissenting).

. Applicant should earn two days for every day served on the street past the midpoint. Because he had 796 days left upon revocation, the legislative scheme requires him to serve twice that time: 1592 days. Or, to put it in terms of the two-for-one-past-the-midpoint formula: 2503 (remaining time on release) divided by 2 equals 1251.5 (the midpoint). 1707 (time on the street) minus 1251.5 (the midpoint) equals 455.5 (time past the midpoint). Multiplying 455.5 by 2 (two for one past the midpoint) yields 911 (amount of "street time" credit). Subtracting 911 ("street time” credit) from 2503 (time remaining upon release) yields 1592 (days left to serve).