LINCOLN- After a multi-year legal fight, Nebraska's Supreme Court ruled Friday that a 2023 criminal justice reform law challenged by the state's Republican Attorney General is constitutional after all, reversing a lower court's ruling.

In a 37-page ruling issued Friday morning, the state's high court said a Lancaster County District Court judge erred when she ruled last March that a portion of the law, known as LB50, violated the separation of powers laid out in Nebraska's constitution.

Friday's ruling paves the way for the full implementation of the law nearly two years after lawmakers passed the sweeping criminal justice reform package with bipartisan support on a 34-15 vote.

Prison officials never implemented the law's most substantive reform, which would have allowed some inmates to become eligible for parole earlier, establishing a "streamlined" route to parole for nonviolent offenders who complete required programming and avoid disciplinary issues for two full years ahead of their eligibility date.\

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