Legal Opinion
Anthony R. Elwood v. Cole Jeter, Warden, Fci Forrest City United States Bureau of Prisons
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 18, 2004No. 04-2253PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MELLOY, Circuit Judge.
Anthony Elwood (“Elwood”) appeals the district court’s denial of his Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, alleging that the Bureau of Prisons’s (“BOP”) policy of limiting prisoner placement in Community Corrections Centers (“CCC”) to the lesser of six months or ten percent of the prisoner’s sentence is illegal. We reverse.
Procedural Background
On May 28, 2002, Elwood pled guilty to one count of wire fraud in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. On February 20, 2003, the district court sentenced him to forty-eight months in prison,…
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