A recently released prisoner who spent almost three decades in prison has lost his lawsuit for compensation for a portion of his detention.

On April 29, Justice Betsy Ann Lambert-Peterson held that Reshi Bissoon’s constitutional claim was an abuse of the court’s process.

Bissoon, who spent over 27 years in prison for the 1995 murder of Leslie Ann Ramsey, sought declarations that his rights to liberty and legal protection were breached under the Constitution. He claimed he was unlawfully detained beyond the expected end of his sentence, arguing that he should have been released as early as August 2014, or by December 2018 at the latest.