Legal Opinion
Jeffrey A. Brown v. Christopher Erlewine
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 12, 2005No. 04-14132PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Per curiam
Federal prisoner Jeffrey A. Brown appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition for writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the district court erroneously interpreted 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b)(1), which states that each federal prisoner “receive credit toward the service of his sentence, beyond the time served, of fifty-four days at the end of each year of his term of imprisonment, beginning at the end of the first year of the term .... ” He argues that the statute’s plain language requires that he earn 54 days credit for each year he is sentenced to imprisonment by the…
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- David O'DOnalD v. Tracy Johns, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2005
- Yancey Lamarr White v. Joseph ScibanaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
- Williams v. DewaltDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 2004
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