Jose Semane Coloma v. Carlyle I. Holder

Pro se federal prisoner Jose Semane Coloma appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Coloma was sentenced twice in separate federal proceedings on different charges, and he asserts that, because those charges were related, the second court’s intention to have his sentences run “concurrently” should be construed under the Guidelines to require the Bureau of Prisons to subtract time served from the 188 months imposed as his second sentence. Because the second sentence already accounted for any overlap due to separate prosecutions…