William JOHN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION, Respondent-Appellee

SHADUR, District Judge:

After he had served about one-fifth of his long-term custodial sentence stemming from a 1976 federal conviction for sexual assault, William John (“John”) was granted parole. Something over three years later John was sentenced to a prison term by a New Mexico state court following his guilty plea to a similar charge. After John was then paroled from the New Mexico sentence some years later, the United States Parole Commission (“Commission”) revoked John’s earlier federal parole and ordered his federal sentence to continue to a 15-year parole reconsideration hearing in…