Legal Opinion
John Kenneth Leighnor, Jr. v. C.A. Turner, Warden, Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 11, 1989No. 88-2096PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
John Kenneth Leighnor, Jr. filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that the United States Parole Commission’s enhancement of his parole guideline range on the basis of his escape from federal prison and use of a false passport violated the rule of specialty contained in the treaty pursuant to which he was extradited. The district court 1 dismissed Leighnor’s petition and we now affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In September 1985 Leighnor was sentenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas to serve an aggregate ten-year…
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