Legal Opinion
Edward Moore v. W. Raymond Nelson, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 5, 1979No. 111, Docket 79-2077PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from a denial of a petition for habeas corpus concerns the parole guidelines currently being used by the United States Parole Commission. 28 C.F.R. § 2.20 (1978). The issue is whether the guidelines may be applied to a “(b)(2)” federal prisoner sentenced under 18 U.S.C. § 4205(b)(2) (1976), which makes him eligible for parole at any time, rather than at the one-third point of his sentence, when he would be eligible for parole if he received a regular adult sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 4205(a) (1976). 1
Petitioner Edward Moore was sentenced pursuant to §…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- United States v. AddonizioSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Lyman T. Shepard v. Larry Taylor, Warden, Metropolitan Correctional Center, and Maurice Sigler, Chairman, United States Parole CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
- Geraghty v. United States Parole CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1978
- James P. Pasquale v. Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1969
- Samuel K. Garafola v. Charles L. Benson, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by35 opinions
- Vito Matarese v. Eugene Lefevre, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General, State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1986
- United States v. Laurence John LaytonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Robert Louis Farkas v. United States of America, United States Parole CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1984
- Angeles Ramonita Garcia v. Kenneth R. Neagle, Warden, F. C. I. Alderson, and United States Parole CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1982
- Donald L. Hayward v. United States Parole Commission, Joseph Petrovsky, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1981
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