Legal Opinion

Gerald Glen Boyden v. Griffin Bell, Attorney General, and L. R. Putnam, Warden

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided October 23, 1980No. 79-2647, 79-2701PublishedCited by 8 opinions

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…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Blackledge v. AllisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  2. McNally v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  3. George Jerome Pfeifer v. United States Bureau of PrisonsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
  4. United States v. Lewis Lee BonifaceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
  5. James Curtis McKinney v. J. C. Taylor, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, KansasCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1966

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. United States v. Leslie Fleishman, United States of America v. Peter Combs, United States of America v. Stephen GreenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
  2. Bishop v. RenoCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2000
  3. Kass v. BarrCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1996
  4. In Re HoganCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1986
  5. Scalise v. MeeseDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1988

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