Court Opinion

ID: 9847714
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:05:51.053313+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:28.777629
License: Public Domain

On Petition for Rehearing
LATOURETTE, J.
The Attorney General has petitioned for a rehearing and clarification of a portion of onr opinion which reads as follows:
“* * * snch court to allow petitioner * .* * any credits for good behavior to which he may be entitled. ’ ’
ORS 421.120 provides for credit on a sentence other than life for good conduct while a prisoner is in the penitentiary, such credit to be allowed, however, only as certified to by the warden and upon his recommendation. See Fehl v. Lewis, 155 Or 499, 64 P2d 648. There is no certificate or recommendation by the warden in the instant ease, and indeed there could be none since petitioner was given a life sentence. The above provision of our opinion was prompted by the testimony of the warden and ex-warden of the penitentiary which disclosed that petitioner, while being incarcerated in that institution, has been a good prisoner and that his conduct warranted being given full credit for good behavior during that period of time.
"We did not intend to imply in our opinion that petitioner was entitled to any good behavior credits as a matter of course. It was our opinion that petitioner’s exemplary conduct while in the penitentiary should be before the court in order that it might be so advised in passing sentence.