Legal Opinion
Nelson Valladares v. P.W. Keohane, Warden and U.S. Parole Commission
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 5, 1989No. 88-5416PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Circuit Judge:
Appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Davis, J.), No. 87-374-CIV, adopting the Magistrate’s recommendation that Nelson Valladares’ (Valladares’) Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus be dismissed. We affirm.
STATUTORY BACKGROUND
Involved here is the Sentencing Reform Act (SRA), 18 U.S.C. § 3551 (1984), Pub.L. No. 98-473, Title II, §§ 211, 212, 218(a)(5) (October 12, 1984), and its provisions for transition to a system of determinate sentences without parole. 1 The courts in Lightsey v. Kastner, 846 F.2d 329,…
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