Danny A. Stewart v. Derrick D. Schofield, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction

How courts have described this case

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• holding the concept of custodial parole irrelevant as defendants serving consecutive sentences will be assigned a single release eligibility date
• providing that inmates challenging a parole decision “have only the limited right of review afforded by the common law writ of certiorari”
• “We clarify that the UAPA governs an inmate’s challenge to the TDOC calculation of a release eligibility date.”
• “review under the common law writ of certiorari is limited to determining whether the ‘inferior tribunal, board, or officer,’ Tenn. Code Ann. § 27-8-101, exceeded its jurisdiction or acted illegally, arbitrarily, or fraudulently”
• “Release on parole is a privilege, not a right.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).