Legal Opinion
United States v. Harlan Salmona
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 8, 2016No. 15-12569PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
Not many people want to be locked up in a federal penitentiary serving a life sentence. Harlan Salmona does because it beats the alternative, which is being locked up in a state penitentiary that he believes is less safe. The problem for Salmona is that his life sentence was imposed by a Florida state court, not by a federal court. Salmona claims that because of a promise made to him by the United States Attorney’s Office in a long ago plea agreement, the federal government is required to get him transferred from state to federal custody for the remainder of his state…
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