Court Opinion

ID: 9686146
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 15:31:20.220815+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:15.452182
License: Public Domain

KELLEY, Justice
(concurring specially).
“Good time” must be earned. Minn.Stat. § 244.04, subd. 1 (1984). The practice of automatically giving an offender credit for “good time” by the commissioner when a *777stay of execution has been revoked, in my view, is erroneous. If, in fact, the offender did not earn the good time and the sentencing judge so found after a hearing, the offender should not automatically be awarded credit by the commissioner of corrections on commitment to a state institution. In this case, the trial judge made no finding that good time was not earned. Therefore, in this ease only, I concur in the court’s opinion.