Legal Opinion

Heath v. O'BRIEN

District Court, W.D. Virginia

Decided August 24, 2009No. Civil Action 7:09cv00042Published

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION

SAMUEL G. WILSON, District Judge.

This is a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(3) by Jamal Jenkins Heath, a federal inmate proceeding pro se, maintaining that the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) has erroneously failed to credit the time he served in state custody for murder and malicious wounding against his federal sentences for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base, use of a firearm during a drug trafficking offense, and escape. Despite the fact that each court specifically directed that its sentence run consecutive to all others, Heath maintains…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Ponzi v. FessendenSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
  2. White v. PearlmanCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1930
  3. William D. Dunne v. Patrick W. Keohane, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
  4. Johnny Horton Weekes v. L.E. Fleming, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2002
  5. Harold Eugene Free v. R.D. Miles, Warden, Fci BastropCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2003

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