# Winters v. Ridley

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · September 4, 1991 · 596 A.2d 569

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9731284

## Case

- **Full name:** Anthony v. WINTERS, Appellant, v. Walter RIDLEY, Director, District of Columbia Department of Corrections, Appellee, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** September 4, 1991
- **Citations:** 596 A.2d 569; 1991 D.C. App. LEXIS 232; 1991 WL 169754
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Ferren and Schwelb, Associate Judges, and MacK, Senior Judge
- **Cited by:** 21 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9731284

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- discussing whether an inmate’s "good time credit” accumulated pursuant to the “Good Time Credits Act” ("GTCA”) passed in 1986 could be applied to reduce the inmate's mandatory minimum sentence for first-degree murder; observing that ten of the thirteen members of the Council w…
- finding ambiguity and consulting legislative history where two sections “appear[ed] to be nudging [the court] in opposite directions” and the language of the statutes was not dispositive
- describing the Council's "swift and emphatic" reaction against federal court ruling authorizing good time credit for first degree murderers
- noting that "[t]he Council's reaction" rejecting Cunningham "was swift and emphatic"

## Opinion text

PER CURIAM.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

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