Legal Opinion
Bruce D. Wellman v. State of Maine
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 26, 1992No. 91-1944PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Bruce D. Wellman appeals the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for habeas corpus. The main issue is whether the State of Maine violated petitioner's constitutional rights by eliminating pretrial detention time as a credit against his sentence which it had previously granted him. For the reasons that follow, we find that there was no constitutional violation and affirm the judgment below.
I. THE FACTS
Petitioner was indicted in Cumberland County, Maine, on twenty-four counts of robbery, burglary, and theft. He was also indicted on ten counts of…
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