Legal Opinion
Jonah R. v. Gilbert Carmona
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 2, 2006No. 05-16391PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Jonah R. spent almost 35 months in detention before he was sentenced to a 30-month term of confinement under the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act (“FJDA”), 18 U.S.C. § 5031 et seq. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) calculates sentences for persons, including juveniles like Jonah, remanded to its custody. Pursuant to a recently-adopted policy, the BOP refused to subtract from Jonah’s sentence any of the 35 months he spent in pre-sentence custody. The district court rejected Jonah’s challenge to this policy. We hold that juveniles must receive…
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