Has the TDCJ’s habit of revoking street time & adding the time to the end of ones’ sentence been challenged in fed court?

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by Grant St. Jullian III

May 17, 2016

Asked 5/14/2016 – Houston, TX

In 1996, I was wrongfully convicted in Houston, Texas, of Burglary of a building. The jury sentenced me to 18 years. After serving 6 years, i was released on parole in 2002. I was free for 5 years then my parole was revoked & I served about 2 years. TDCJ acted like the 5 years that I was free on parole did not exist & they added it to the end of my sentence, turning my 18 year sentence into 23 years, 5 years beyond the jury’s proscription. Has this practice of revoking street time been challenged in Federal court?

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A person does not have a right to parole, so pretty much whatever the parole board wants to do, they do. It is not prohibited that your street time be added to the end your sentence for parole purposes after a parole revocation.

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Grant St. Jullian III

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering – 1979 Univ. of Pennsylvania
Doctor of Jurisprudence 1982 University of Texas @ Austin
Licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas since 1982.

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