Alan Abrahams v. George H. Rodgers, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook, New York

This appeal involves the determination of whether two federal sentences are consecutive and thus must be aggregated for purposes of computing “good-time” under 18 U.S.C. § 4161 (1976). Petitioner-appellant Abrahams was sentenced on April 2, 1978, to a prison term by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. This sentence (less good time) expired on January 4,1980. Abrahams was not released since he faced another federal charge in the Southern District and did not make bail. On June 4, 1980, he was sentenced to four years and six months on the second charge.

Abraham…