Tom Manuel v. J.A. Terris

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Manuel, a federal prisoner, filed a petition for habeas corpus (28 U.S.C. § 2241) directed at the warden of his prison and claiming an entitlement to a reduction in his prison sentence. The district court, disagreeing, denied the petition.

Multiple overlapping sentences— which Manuel received — present difficult analytical questions. With some statutory limitations (see our recent decision in United States v. Maday, 799 F.3d 776 (7th Cir.2015)), a federal judge is empowered to make a sentence that he imposes run concurrently with a federal or state sentence not yet fully…