Pina v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution

How courts have described this case

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• \The long standing rule of the Commonwealth is that exceptions do not lie from an issuance of the writ of habeas corpus\
• the SJC converted years into calendar months in order to determine statutoiy good time credits
• habeas corpus is the appropriate vehicle for an inmate who challenges the mathematical computation of good time credits
• where petitioner “was not eligible for release at the time of the hearing on his petition . . . [he] failed to state a claim for a writ of habeas corpus”
• statutory good time credits “are useful for institutional discipline”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).