United States v. Jeffrey Sale Lualemaga, AKA Jeffrey Sale

DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

The State of Hawaii violated the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act (IAD), 18 U.S.CApp. 2, by failing to inform Jeffrey Sale Lualemaga of his right to request a final disposition of his federal indictment within 180 days of the United States lodging a detainer against him in state prison. That violation resulted in part from the federal detainer, which erroneously identified Lualemaga as an unsen-tenced prisoner not protected by the IAD. In reality, Hawaii had sentenced Lualema-ga six weeks earlier and, therefore, the United States erred in telling Hawaii…