William L. Davis, Jr. v. United States

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

William L. Davis, Jr., an inmate of the Federal Correctional Institution at Sandstone, Minnesota, appeals from the District Court’s 1 order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking relief from the Bureau of Prisons’ computation of the term of his sentence. We affirm.

In 1977, following Davis’s conviction on several firearms offenses, the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania sentenced him, pursuant to the “split sentence” provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3651, to a term of five years imprisonment with six months to be served in a penal…