Legal Opinion
Thompson v. Choinski
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 8, 2008No. Docket 04-5079-prPublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVAL, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner pro se Sala-Thiel Thompson appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Dorsey, Judge), which sua sponte dismissed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus without prejudice to refiling. Thompson is a prisoner serving a 371-month sentence imposed in 1992 by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida for bank robbery. At the time of the petition, he was serving that federal sentence in a Connecticut state facility pursuant to a federal-state contract for the housing of federal convicts.…
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