Gerald Glen Boyden v. Griffin Bell, Attorney General, and L. R. Putnam, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
SNEED, Circuit Judge:
Gerald Glen Boyden appeals the district court’s summary dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3244. 1 Although appellant raises a number of issues, the primary one is whether U.S. authorities violated the implementing legislation 2 of the prisoner exchange treaty 3 (Treaty) between the United States and Canada in apportioning the remission credit of Boyden’s Canadian sentence according to the time actually served in a foreign prison. We conclude that the pro-ration of remission credit is required by law and affirm the dismissal in…
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