Legal Opinion
Childers v. Laws
District Court, W.D. North Carolina
Decided March 11, 1983No. ST-C-82-115-PPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION GRANTING HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF
POTTER, District Judge.
In this habeas corpus action brought by a state prisoner, Petitioner seeks sixty-four (64) days credit for time served in the Bristol, Virginia city jail after he was apprehended for having escaped custody from the North Carolina Department of Corrections. For the reasons set out below, the Court finds merit in Petitioner’s claim and herewith grants the requested writ of habe-as corpus in the form of a sixty-four (64) day credit against the original sentence from which he escaped.
I. FINDINGS OF FACT
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Cummings v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- McGinnis v. RoysterSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Leonard Campbell v. Anderson McGruder Superintendent, Detention Services, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1978
- Thomas Harry Durkin v. Jack F. Davis, Director, Dept. Of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by3 opinions
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