Isidro Sanchez Ochoa v. M.C. Lennon, Jr., Warden, Federal Correction Institute, Bastrop

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

The district court granted the respondent’s motion for summary judgment and denied petitioner’s application for writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

I

On January 23, 1979, appellant was sentenced by a federal district judge to ten years imprisonment with a five-year special parole term to follow. The trial court, following the split sentence provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3651,1 directed Ochoa to serve 179 days of the ten-year sentence, suspended execution of the remainder of his sentence, and placed petitioner on probation for five years commencing upon his release from…