Echeandia v. United States Attorney General

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, based upon 18 U.S.C., section 3568, which provides that a defendant shall receive “credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in custody in connection with the offense or acts for which sentence was imposed,” seeks credit toward the federal sentence he is now serving for time spent in a Maryland state prison while awaiting trial and prior .to his conviction and sentencing on the state charge.

Petitioner, upon his conviction of a federal charge in this court, was sentenced in December 1960 to a five-year term of imprisonment. He was…