Arkansas Post-Prison Transfer Board; Lona McCastlain

Summary

The court affirmed the circuit court’s determination that Norvel was eligible for parole under Act 683 because his sentencing order did not expressly designate that he was sentenced under the applicable parole statute. The notation that he had prior residential burglaries and should serve flat time neither cited the statute nor clearly and unmistakably represented that he was sentenced under it, and the court declined to apply the absurdity doctrine because the statutory language was plain.