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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Welch finds the county court improperly denied the inmate's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Convicted for robbery, the inmate says he has been confined beyond the term of the 10-year mandatory minimum for his 18-to-20-year sentence. Due to a miscalculation of the mandatory minimum release date, the inmate was released 5 years early then rearrested and convicted for four new offenses. He then received a sentence for the new offenses combined with the "dead time" accrued because of the early release. The court of appeals expresses no opinion on the inmate's allegations of over-detention, though it concludes that habeas corpus is the proper procedure for challenging his custody and that the court erroneously dismissed it on the face of the pleadings. Reversed.