Court Opinion

ID: 9628866
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:33:23.319084+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:12.645747
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THOMAS, Justice,
concurring and dissenting, with whom GOLDEN, Justice, joins.
I am in complete accord with affirming the district court in its denial of Meek’s motion to correct his sentences. There was no error in that ruling by the district court.
I cannot agree with a remand, at the suggestion of the State, to require the district court to reduce the credit for presentence confinement on the escape charge. The State took no appeal from the ruling of the district court, and that alone should prevent the State from seeking affirmative relief in this Court. Furthermore, as I understand the record, the State did not seek that relief in the district court, and it would appear the issue is presented for the first time in this appeal. That also prevents affirmative relief to the State.
*359While I am not philosophically opposed to taking away credit for presentence confinement to which Meek is not entitled, I believe that our rules of appellate jurisprudence prevent us from taking this course. We should not afford affirmative relief to an Appellee who did not seek that relief in the district court and who has not appealed from the judgment or final order.