Hennessy v. SUPERINTENDENT, MASS. CORRECTIONAL INST.

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• declining to abandon Wyeth rule that \an appeal does not lie from the issuance of the writ\
• to qualify, a petitioner must show he or she “is eligible for immediate release from the respondent’s custody”
• habeas corpus relief available to individual seeking remedy for events occurring after conviction and who would be entitled to immediate release upon successful petition
• where inmate’s claim of statutory good time credits on sentence being served would not result in immediate release because of outstanding consecutive sentence, petition for habeas corpus relief did not he
• improper failure to apply good conduct and program participation credits to sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).