Thompson v. Cockrell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a Texas state prisoner had a liberty interest in the calendar time following his erroneous release
• holding that the Clause does not create a liberty interest in calendar-time credit
• finding that then-existing-Texas law created a liberty interest in receiving credit for time spent erroneously at liberty
• superseded by statute as stated in Rhodes v. Thaler, 713 F.3d 264 (5th Cir. 2013)
• “[T]he Due Process Clause does not by itself prohibit states from denying prisoners calendar time after an erroneous release.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).