Legal Opinion
Sluss v. United States Department of Justice
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 19, 2021No. Civil Action No. 2019-3658Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MATTHEW SLUSS, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 19-3658 (JEB) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiff Matthew Sluss, a citizen of both the United States and Canada, would prefer to serve the remainder of his 33-year sentence north of the border — or not serve it at all. Believing a Canadian prison would grant him parole, Sluss has applied to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for three separate transfers, each of which was denied. After the most recent denial, he brought this pro se action under…
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