Sidney Ray Wilkerson v. United States Board of Parole

This appeal from the denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus presents the questions of whether the United States Parole Commission has the authority to order a parole violator’s term to run consecutive to the new sentence imposed while on parole and to forfeit a parole violator’s good-time credit and credit for time served on parole. We affirm the dismissal of the petition. 1

Sidney Ray Wilkerson, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Marion, Illinois, was convicted of possession and passing counterfeit obligations in 1971 and sentenced to a fifteen-year term of imprisonment. He…