Legal Opinion
Wells v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 11, 2002No. 99-SP-351PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FARRELL, Associate Judge.
Wells appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, see D.C.Code § 16-1901 (2001), arguing that due process requires, at the least, that he receive credit toward District of Columbia sentences he is now serving for some twenty-five months during which he was at liberty after he was paroled by Virginia authorities but before District of Columbia parole officials executed a parole violation warrant against him. We affirm.
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In September 1989 Wells was sentenced in the District of Columbia to a prison term of 15-45 months for attempted distribution…
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