Royal v. Durison.

• Position: SENTENCE - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

CREDIT

Royal v. Durison, 319 F.Supp.2d 534 (E.D.Pa. 2004). A state inmate filed a [section] 1983 action alleging he was detained in excess of the statutorily prescribed maximum for the crimes for which he was convicted, and that prison officials failed to consider his request for adjustment of his precommitment time. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, finding that the director of classification for a city prison system was not deliberately indifferent to the inmate's claim, that the clerk responsible for keeping records used to determine precommitment time had no authority to calculate the inmate's sentence...