Wallace Dean-Mitchell v. Warden

ROBRENO, District Judge:

Before the Court is an appeal by Wallace Dean-Mitchell of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus petition, which was denied by the district court for the Northern District of Alabama. For the reasons set forth below, we will reverse the decision of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of the Warden and remand the case for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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Dean-Mitchell, a District of Colombia Code offender, is currently serving a sentence of thirty-five years to life in a federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) facility. Because his offenses occurred in…