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Nebraska High Court Rejects Motions in Miscalculated Sentences Case

ne-supreme-courtLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected the legal requests of two men ordered back to prison in 2014 after being wrongly released because state officials had routinely miscalculated sentences.

The state’s high court on Friday dismissed the appeal of Abdul Al-Ameen. The high court said Friday that because Al-Ameen has already been released prison, his motion for habeas corpus was moot.

Also Friday, the high court upheld the denial of a challenge by Thomas Evans, who said his return to prison violated his due process rights. The high court rejected that, saying prison officials first made a case to a judge that Evans had not served his full sentence and that Evans was given an evidentiary hearing after his arrest so he could argue for his release.

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