Ferrante v. U.S. Bureau of Prisons

OPINION

ORLOFSKY, District Judge.

This petition for a writ of habeas corpus requires that I review the confusing state of the Supreme Court’s retroactivity jurisprudence to evaluate the calculation of a prison sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b). 1 Petitioner, John Ferrante, challenges the retroactive application of the Supreme Court’s decision in Reno v. Koray, 515 U.S. 50, 115 S.Ct. 2021, 132 L.Ed.2d 46 (1995), which reversed the Third Circuit and held that a defendant’s prison sentence could not be reduced by the duration of his confinement to a community treatment center as a condition…