Legal Opinion
Sample v. Morrison
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 7, 2005No. 04-40698PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Per curiam
In 2001, Brandon Creighton Sample, now a federal prisoner (# 33939-037), pleaded guilty to money laundering and other offenses and was sentenced to a total of 168 months in prison. He allegedly has been in custody since May 28, 2000. Sample filed the instant 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habe-as petition asserting that the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) is calculating his good time credit in a manner contrary to 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b). He argued that the statute requires that a prisoner be awarded “54 days” of credit for each year of his prison term, as imposed by the court, whereas the BOP is computing such…
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