Legal Opinion

Robert Dan Orr v. Kathleen M. Hawk

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided September 9, 1998No. 96-6498PublishedCited by 50 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

SILER, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Robert Dan Orr appeals the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. As set forth below, we REVERSE the judgment of the district court and REMAND for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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Orr was a prisoner in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) at the Federal Prison Camp at Millington, Tennessee, before the expiration of his sentence in March 1998. He is currently on supervised release.

Orr was convicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on one…

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