Legal Opinion

George E. McFarland v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided March 17, 1969No. 26991_1PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Per curiam

This appeal is appropriate for summary disposition pursuant to this Court’s local Rule 20. The district court denied appellant’s petition for the writ of habeas corpus on the merits of the petition. We affirm.

Appellant is attacking his confinement in a federal penitentiary, challenging (1) the right of the government to aggregate his sentences to compute his good time allowance; (2) the jurisdiction by which the government arrested him on a parole violator’s warrant upon release from confinement in a state penitentiary; and (3) the established expiration date of his sentences.

Having…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Joseph Orton Smith v. Olin G. Blackwell, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
  2. Alex Buchanan v. Olin G. Blackwell, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
  3. Jack Kenneth Brown v. J. O. Kearney, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana, TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Schoffner v. United States Board of ParoleDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1976

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