Court of Appeal dismisses Cornelius Price’s challenge to prison release-date calculation

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The Court of Appeal dismissed Cornelius Price’s appeal over the calculation of remission on his three-year sentence for endangering a garda. It held his detention was lawful for the disputed 24-hour period in May 2019.

Price was sentenced on 24 February 2017, with the term backdated to 17 February. The court upheld the prison service’s method of calculating standard remission in days, which meant the sentence expired at midnight on 18 May 2019 rather than midnight on 17 May.