Joe Louis Esquivel v. United States of America, J. T. Willingham, Warden, U.S. Bureau of Prisons

Petitioner challenges a dismissal of his application for habeas corpus by the United States District Court for the District of Kansas and invokes appellate court jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253. This appeal stems from petitioner’s 1960 conviction for unlawful possession of narcotics, 21 U.S.C. § 174, and incarceration under a ten-year sentence. Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4163, he was conditionally released from imprisonment on November 10, 1966, as a mandatory releasee. Subsequently, petitioner’s conviction for vagrancy, resumption of narcotics use, failure to benefit from voluntary…